It’s what I call national suicide – and that’s not hyperbole. Every day that we fail to fix our broken immigration laws is a day that we inflict a wound on our economy. Today, we may have turned away the next Albert Einstein or Sergey Brin. Tomorrow, we may turn away the next Levi Strauss or Jerry Yang.

Go Mayor Bloomberg! Much of the immigration reform discussion in the US centers around farm workers and laborers (not that I have anything against them). There is little focus on the fact that the green card process for educated, accomplished professionals is so completely broken that its basically a joke.

In my case.... after having spent close to 15 years in the US, with an undergrad degree from a top school and an MBA from another top school and having worked at Microsoft, Yahoo, EA, I was only able to finally get a green card after I married a US citizen! Why? Because I am an Indian citizen, and green cards are given out by quotas. This is quite possibly the most anti-capitalistic, anti-meritocratic and basically anti-all-things-American process employed by the US government. It is LONG overdue for a change.