For Stuart Anderson, executive director of the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-partisan public policy research organisation focussing on trade, immigration and related issues, immigration is the issue closest to his heart.
Anderson has served as executive associate commissioner for policy and planning and counsellor to the commissioner at the US Immigration and Naturalization Service from August 2001 to January 2003.
Before that he spent four-and-a-half years on Capitol Hill, on the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, first for Senator Spencer Abraham and then as staff director of the subcommittee for Senator Sam Brownback.
Anderson, who has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and other publications, discusses issues relating to the recent controversy over H-1B visas. Read on. . .
Text: Suman Guha Mozumder
Image: Microsoft Corporation chairman Bill Gates testifies during a hearing before the House Science and Technology Committee on Capitol Hill on March 12, 2008 in Washington, DC. | Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images
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