Miles Hansen: Lee’s immigration bill will give Silicon Slopes the high-tech workers it needs

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, at news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015 (AP Photo/Molly Riley)Utah’s tech economy is booming, yet despite unprecedented growth, many business leaders share a common challenge in realizing their global potential. The problem isn’t a lack of innovative ideas. It’s a lack of high-skilled labor.

In Utah, like many places around the country, tech CEOs have maxed out their local talent pool and are looking to hire foreign-born workers to keep their companies thriving. Yet under an outdated and inefficient immigration system that allows only 7 percent of applicants from a given country to apply for employment-based green cards each year,…