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Microsoft’s Ballmer on H1-B Visas, Immigration
The Detroit Free Press recently interviewed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer who asked him why Microsoft in 2007 built a research and development facility in Canada–over the border in Vancouver–not that far from Microsoft’s quarters in Redmond, Wash.
Why not build it in the United States? Ballmer’s response:
While the Canadian R&D credit may have been a factor, it wasn’t the deciding one, Ballmer said. That would be immigration policy…
“We opened the lab in Vancouver,” Ballmer said, “because we were having trouble getting visas for …

