What is good for the country and good for us as individuals in the short term doesn't always line up. For a country to work well, one needs to look beyond his own needs. I think that immigration needs to be revamped, but it's a huge task, and it doesn't make sense to logjam all related issues.

The parent's point about political sensitivity is very important - it makes it much, much less likely to happen in the near future, and it doesn't improve the situation of that other bill very much. It's just not a strong enough motivator politically, because there aren't many voters in the startup community.

This is a strictly worse outcome, regardless of your priorities, unless your goal is to keep highly educated foreigners from staying.