stops family reunification spouses and unmarried minor children and reorients immigration toward high school immigration, and also we have enhanced enforcement like say more employment verification so business owners can t hire and abuse illegal immigrants, then we re not trying to do everything under the sun on immigration but we are addressing the problem immediately in front of us. right. and mitigating the negative consequences of that. i ve discussed would your bill include the 600,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers, giving them permanent legal stat us? sir, my legislation doesn t include that now but what i m proposing is that we could sit down and negotiate, include legal status for the 600,000 to 800,000 people who are covered by the daca program, and address the problems that that would create secondary effect, making sure that we re not opening up legal status for the people who violated the law in the first place and that we re not encouraging parents in the future to bring their c
and the chances for this getting through are still iffy. because there s so many people taking shots at it. marco rubio is now worrying about his right flank coming after him because he s been a leader of this bipartisan group of eight. what can the business community do to reassure people, especially republicans, who are having trouble coming around on this. i m optimistic. the best environment for passing immigration reform we ve had in a decade. the people in the business community have been talking about the need for this for many years, but it hasn t gotten done because people are trying to deal with it on a piecemeal basis, dealing with h1b for example. the opportunity is to deal with it in a more comprehensive kind of way and the business community needs to do its part. the tech community has started to make its message clear. not only do they want high school immigration, they support a more comprehensive package a march for immigration. a march on washington, virtual march.
u.s. technology. it s huge. last year the congress and white house worked together on that was very important. this year, the focus is on immigration. hopefully, next week, gang of eight lay out their principles and more specificity around the specific aspects of that and result in a debate in the congress. i m hopeful the next three months or so that we will pass comprehensive immigration reform and i think only pass if it s a comprehensive solution and i don t think the political will to deal with parts of it but a robust package around high school immigration and start upvisa and raising the cap on h-1-vs. the start up visa act this legislation exists and need to be knit together in a package and linked with broader comprehensive solution but if we
40% of fortune 500 companies were first or second-generation immigrants. about half the silicon valley companies are funded by immigrants. we need to win that battle. that s hopefully where there s common ground not just around high school immigration but i think there s building support, bipartisan support, for comprehensive immigration reform. i think that can happen in the next few months if people come together. steve, if you could do one thing that would enhance american competitiveness either within the immigration world or somewhere else, what would you do? number one is entrepreneurship. data says that 40 million new jobs created in the last decade by young high-growth companies. it s not the big businesses or the main street small businesses, it s the young, fast-growing businesses. and that access to capital is part of that which is why that jobs act last year was important. this week the start-up act, 3.0, was introduced in the senate with bipartisan support. dealt with
one of them, for example, is we ve got to hope up high school immigration this would be a anymore benefit to the productivity of our economy and the still level of our economy. but we can t even agree to stiple a green card to every graduate issued in an american university so those bright young people can stay here and become part of our community. it s a political will problems. we re talking about the buffett rule. that doesn t matter. we re talking about a lot of things that don t maher. there are side shows, they re all basically understand. there s a lot of agreement, pe have to simplify regulation, be more aggressive in terms of trade, address these issues partly through negotiation. we have to reduce the corporate