The White House is projecting that most of the economic benefits from its immigration reform will come from highly-skilled workers, but dissatisfied tech groups say the initiative does not do enough to help them recruit foreign programmers and engineers.
President Barack Obama used his executive powers last week to remove the deportation threat hanging over nearly 5m unauthorised immigrants, and took smaller steps to address longstanding complaints from Silicon Valley about US visa backlogs.
The measures for the tech sector are at the heart of White House claims about the economic impact of its move, but tech lobbyists said the Obama administration's plans lacked critical details and had been oversold.
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