Google is truly a global enterprise, they have developers from as far off as Iran, Canada and Switzerland. Sergey himself fled from the Soviet Union in 1979. It is no wonder then that Google has a vested interest in ensuring the safety of these employees and strong desire to make certain they continue to have the opportunity to work.

Today, Lazlo Bock, Google’s Vice President of People Relations testifies before Congress on the impact that immigration reform might have on Google’s workforce.

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The world has become smaller, and as the distribution of information makes your laptop almost as important as the library of Congress, questions like this will continue to make their way to the front of our collective consciousness. With Google spearheading the charge to the future of the web, it seems rather appropriate that they would be one of the companies seriously tackling this issue.

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