Immigration remains one of a handful of truly divisive social issues in the U.S. today.
The question of how many foreign residents should be allowed into the country cuts across politics and ideology, making the debate often sound frenetic, even schizophrenic. Indeed, anti-immigration is one of the few things that the far right and far left often agree upon. But in the case of the H-1B visa for skilled workers, there really shouldn't be much argument at all. Raising the number of visas from 65,000 to 90,000 per year is the right thing to do. You can challenge estimates of the size of the problem, but it's certain huge numbers of high-tech positions are unfilled.