Border patrol

The nation's giant technology firms are competing this week in the annual government lottery for visas allowing them to hire highly skilled foreign workers, and few are expecting to get what they want. The story is reported here.

Microsoft is petitioning to hire 1,600 foreign engineers. But company
officials said they would be lucky to gain 40 percent of those requests in this
year's contest, which begins today and ends April 7.

If Microsoft set up an all-inclusive office in Mexico, it would not only solve this problem, but Americans would also be lining up to transfer offices.