Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerburg has led the tech industry in aggressively pushing for amnesty legislation that the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers, partly because the legislation would double or even triple the number of H1-B visas and other guest-worker permits. Doing so would make jobs that are already scarce for blacks, Latinos, and women in Silicon Valley even more so.
Kotkin cited a report in the San Jose Mercury News that found that the "unique diversity of Silicon Valley is not reflected in the region's tech workplaces—and the disparity is only growing worse," as blacks, Hispanics, and women employees are dwindling in the high-tech industry.
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