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August 02, 2012 Microsoft Gets Behind Latest Push to Replace American Workers "The sleek conference room at Microsoft's Washington, D.C., office was packed Wednesday morning with industry and policy leaders. The conversation topic: The skilled worker pipeline in the U.S., particularly the cap on H-1B visas. Talk ranged from policy prescriptions to where the demand for H-1B visa workers is most concentrated. But beneath the data, policy, corporate interests and politics rest central, non-empirical questions: Why aren't American students interested in science, technology, math and engineering?" the Washington Post reports.
Gang Members, Others, Released to Commit Crimes Again "The Obama administration and its immigration agencies are partly responsible for the rape, robbery and murder of American citizens because they refuse to enforce immigration law. That is the upshot of a report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which the U.S. House Judiciary Committe released early this week. Thanks to the administration, tens of thousands of dangerous criminals are roaming the streets, committing tens of thousands of terrible crimes they could not commit if the president would deport them," notes The New American.
Detention Growth Benefited Private Prison Firms, Report Claims "The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever, generating lucrative profits for the nation's largest prison companies, and an Associated Press review shows the businesses have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying lawmakers and contributing to campaigns. The cost to American taxpayers is on track to top $2 billion for this year, and the companies are expecting their biggest cut of that yet in the next few years thanks to government plans for new facilities to house the 400,000 immigrants detained annually," the AP says. "But ICE Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations Gary Mead said the government has never studied whether privatizing immigrant detention saves money. "They are not our most expensive, they are not our cheapest" facilities, he said. "At some point cost cannot be the only factor." One fundamental difference between private detention facilities and their publicly-run counterparts is transparency. The private ones don't have to follow the same public records and access requirements."
Indiana AG Says Arizona Ruling Curtails State Law "Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller reined in the state's immigration law Tuesday. He concluded that portions of Indiana's law cannot be enforced after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June on a similar law from Arizona. The high court said immigration laws are the responsibility of the federal government, not states. On Tuesday, Zoeller filed a legal motion conceding that the high court made it clear that state laws can't allow local officers to arrest people for immigration violations in certain instances," JConline.com reports.
Democrat Candidate Says Obama Amnesty Plan Not Political "Democratic congressional candidate Steven Horsford on Wednesday slammed his GOP opponent Danny Tarkanian for accusing President Barack Obama of using Hispanics as a "political tool" to win re-election by offering two-year work permits to young illegal immigrants," the Las Vegas Review Journal writes. "Horsford reminded the supportive Hispanic crowd that Tarkanian took a hard immigration line during his failed 2010 U.S. Senate campaign when he was competing with other conservatives in a GOP primary."
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