[Berman:] Facebook, Google, Microsoft, cutthroat competitors in the business world, but on immigration reform they stand united. Whether it's Mark Zuckerberg or Eric Schmidt or Bill Gates, they are technology visionaries who helped shape our present, now they are pushing hard for an immigration overhaul that could shape the future. This week Zuckerberg spoke publicly about immigration reform for the first time.
[Mark Zuckerberg, Ceo, Facebook:] The students who no matter where they were born coming into this country are going to be tomorrow's entrepreneurs and the people creating jobs. This is something that we believe is really important for the future of our country and for us to do what's right.
[Berman:] He has a vested interest. Technology companies say they have jobs and not enough skilled workers to fill them. They holler that U.S. universities educate some of the most talented students in the world, who then get sent them home to create jobs in other countries. It's something that Google's Eric Schmidt and Microsoft's Bill Gates have both complained about on this show when speaking recently with Christine Romans.
[Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google:] It particularly stupid for the American government to require us to fully educate people with PhDs, ship them out of the country where they can create competitors in other countries that take American jobs away.
[Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft:] If we want to a bring a person here to be educated, you should never then make them go away. And there's some categories of jobs where you know other jobs are created around them. So forcing those back to Asia doesn't make sense.
[Berman:] So the tech industry is making its case loudly; the question is, is Washington listening? Dana Bash is CNN's chief congressional correspondent, a reporter in the Worldwide Reporting Hall of Fame. Dana, the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill that's stalled in the House right now. But here's what Senator Chuck Schumer said on CNN's "NEW DAY."
[Sen. Charles Schumer,  New York:] We would much prefer a big, comprehensive bill, but any way that the House can get there is OK by us. I actually am optimistic that we will get this done.
[Berman:] He's now talking about the possibility of supporting a piecemeal approach. That seemed like a marker of sorts. How do you see this shaking out?
[Dana Bash, Cnn Chief Congressional Correspondent:] It was a marker. Certainly that's the way it's being perceived by House Republican leadership sources who I have spoken to about that. The only catch is that he is putting out an olive branch, saying that if Republicans want to pass immigration in the process of splitting it up in smaller bills, that's fine. He's not going to he's moving away from his whole idea of comprehensive immigration reform. But here's the "but" and this is a big "but" what they are not going to go for in the Senate, these people who supported comprehensive reform, is saying, OK, we're going to pass a border security bill now and then in a year or two years we'll get to the issue of legal status or citizenship. That is something that they will not go for. So there's definitely an important gray area here. But the fact that he put that out is certainly telling. And I will tell you very quickly. The whole fear going into this month-long recess where we are right now is among supporters of immigration reform was that Republicans in the House would get blasted by conservative constituents, the base, saying don't you dare touch this. What we have seen so far is actually the opposite. We've seen Republican leaders come out and be much more open to the idea, even of legal status. We're talking about the House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy and even the House Judiciary Chairman. So that actually has been surprising and maybe a sign that this whole idea is not dead after all, which a lot of people thought.
[Berman:] Dana Bash, thank you so much. As you said, this summer recess key in the immigration rebate. Thanks, Dana. So much for that old sales adage, "All real estate is local."
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