Honestly, immigration here is a joke as it is... especially when it comes down to worker visas. Not trying to go political - it's just a disaster and no one person or group can really, truly, fix it. On 2/8/2013 9:48 AM, Ubu Sumner wrote: > I don't expect a discussion of this here, since it's stretching the > TCLUG mission perhaps, but I'm hoping some of you might appreciate a > gentle suggestion to put your opinion into an email, whatever that > might be. The horse may be out of the barn for Klobuchar on this > issue, but sometimes it helps anyway to write a thoughtful letter. If > you agree with her you can send her a thank you note. ;) > > Contact links to your Congress people: > http://www.usayfoundation.org/states/minnesota > > Yesterday in the Star: > > http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/189453241.html > > "....Minnesota _Sen. Amy Klobuchar's legislation_ > <http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/188777081.html> to > increase H-1B visas and green card quotas is welcome and will help the > U.S. economy. The jobs that are offered will only be located where > there are not sufficient qualified local citizens...." > > Today in the New York Times: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/opinion/americas-genius-glut.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130208 > > "....Bringing over more --- there are already 500,000 workers on H-1B > visas --- would obviously darken job prospects for America's > struggling young scientists and engineers. But it would also hurt our > efforts to produce more: if the message to American students is, > "Don't bother working hard for a high-tech degree, because we can > import someone to do the job for less," we could do significant > long-term damage to the high-tech educational system we value so dearly. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130208/27d6389f/attachment.html>