Tech CEOs must be scared about H-1B backlash; they resort to push-polling

Source: Press release

WASHINGTON, April 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A recent poll conducted for TechNet, the bipartisan policy and political network of CEOs that promotes the growth of the innovation economy, demonstrates that two in three Americans support policy solutions to improve the nation's high-skilled immigration system.

According to a survey on public perceptions surrounding innovation and job creation recently conducted for TechNet by Zogby International, 66% of likely U.S. voters believe that it's acceptable to bring in highly-skilled individuals from other nations through the nation's legal immigration process if an American is not available to fill jobs that require high-level engineering or science skills. One-fifth of likely voters (20%) believe that the job should be left open indefinitely.

... Party affiliation: Political identifiers all agree on support for hiring high-skilled workers as Democrats support at 69.2%, Republicans at 65.1% and Independents at 64.4%.

... The Zogby-463 survey of 4,143 likely U.S. voters was conducted from March 12-15 with a margin of error of +/- 1.6 percentage points.

Read more: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-voters-show-strong-support-for-high-skilled-immigration-90976129.html

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The poll specifically asks "if an American is not available to fill jobs that require high-level engineering or science skills," which of course is what many companies are not doing. Watch for this bogus poll to start showing up in the media echo chamber.