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• Visa Fraud by French Hairstyling Chain -- (12/1)
  
• New H-1B Fraud Case -- (12/1)
  
• More on the Immigration Billboard Campaign -- (11/30)
  
• Immigration Billboard Campaign Spreads Nationwide -- (11/17)
  
• Congress Removes ID Integrity Requirement -- (11/15)
  
• High-Tech Age Discrimination -- (11/10)
  
• Restoring Food Stamps for Immigrants -- (11/04)
  
• The University of Houston Law Center has organized a Nov. 4 panel discussion on Immigration Reform: What is the American Way? -- (10/25)
  
• Report on Immigration and Poverty Congressional Symposium sponsored jointly by FAIR and the Univ. of Colorado's Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues. -- (10/21)
  
• Mexican Government Tries to Undermine U.S. Sovereignty -- (10/15)
  
• Immigration Flashback: AFL President Gompers on Immigration -- (10/5)
  
• Federal Register: Your comments will help INS deport illegal aliens -- (9/29)
  
• Florida Overpopulation Awareness Week -- (9/25)
  
• COMMENTS FROM OUR MEMBERS AND WEB SITE VISITORS (below)

FROM OUR WEB SITE USERS

COMMENTARY ON THE H-1B "TEMPORARY" HIGH-TECH WORKER PROGRAM
"Employers are trying to solve their problems with legislation instead of using fair business practices, namely supply and demand. In the 80's the supply of programmers was high and wages were low. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, business is crying. Supply and demand is as American as apple pie. Don't let the limit be raised. Software developers a.k.a programmers are just now starting to make a fair wage. Did you know that most programmers work 60 or more hours a week for 40 hours worth of pay? Did you know that most companies internal policies are to hire one programmer for every two persons worth of work? ...
Do we want our technology held hostage by nationals of another country? Our nuclear technology is a good example of a bad technology transfer. How do companies do a background check on an H-1B employee anyway? What part of the software community will it be safe for them to work? What sensitive material will they get to look at and send back home? Are there American security interests at stake in increasing H-1B? ...
If American employees do not have time for their children because they work multiple jobs because business keeps legislating their supply of employees then where does business think the next generation of good employees will come from? They will come from overseas!!! Companies will be able to hire the cream and fire the rest. They will use up the best and the brightest with no regard to investing in our country. How are families to function...? When companies try to legislate salaries, both parents find themselves scrambling to find work outside the home to make ends meet.
Grandson of a coal mine union organizer - June 3, 1999.

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REINFORCING THE BORDER
Since January of this year, The Tucson Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol has apprehended approximately 250,000 illegal aliens sneaking across Arizona's border with Mexico. According to the lowest INS estimate, for every apprehension, three illegal aliens escape. (Although previous estimates of the ratio has been 5 to 1, let's go with the 3 to 1 ratio.) Let's further assume that those apprehended and deported have returned to their country of origin to stay. This means that a minimum of 750,000 illegal aliens have successfully entered this country across Arizona's borders this year alone. The vast majority of those successful entries have taken place in and around the Douglas area. Let's further assume that only 1 percent of those successful entrants are persons having criminal tendencies. That means 7,500 vandals, burglars, car thieves, mail pilferers and criminal trespassers have entered Arizona this year alone. ...
The fault of this whole situation lies with multinational corporations who further victimize cheap laborers with low wages; the foreign governments who would rather push their citizens to the United States other than risk the wrath of the elite in their homeland by instituting economic reforms; and the United States politicians who refuse to risk losing money flowing to their campaigns and political parties. ...
An astute Arizonan - June 2, 1999


FAIR, 9/99

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