In a plea for hiring relief, Google has sent the US Department of Labor an urgent appeal to amend US immigration laws to ease the hiring of foreign IT workers. On May 1, the tech titan submitted a lengthy response to the department’s request for information on modernizing Schedule A, a little-known immigration rule that fast-tracks the hiring of foreign workers in occupations facing pre-certified shortages in the US. In a copy of the letter obtained by CIO.com, Google urges the government to expand the list of occupations covered under Schedule A to include cutting-edge jobs in artificial inte…