The federal government should allow more foreigners into the United States so that industries that need high-skilled workers can get them, a pharmaceutical company executive said.
Yvonne Greenstreet, president and chief operating officer of Alnylan Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Cambridge, said biotechnology needs people from other countries – like her, who came to the United States in 2004 from England.
Immigration policies in the United States are failing immigrants in the country illegally and their supporters, Harvard University's president said.
Lawrence Bacow, president of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said former President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which has prevented illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as children from being deported, has done some good but doesn't go far enough.
