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Top 10 in U.S. House on reducing immigration in 2011

By Roy Beck, Friday, February 10, 2012, 5:39 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

NumbersUSA's Top 10 Immigration-Reduction Grades for 2011 belong to U.S. Representatives whose efforts would have shone in any Congress. But they looked particularly stellar in relation to the abject immigration failures of the House Republican leadership.

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Sen. Grassley’s H-1B Reform Proposal Would Close Loophole Hurting U.S. Workers

Friday, February 10, 2012, 3:58 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

Sen. Charles Grassley’s H-1B reform proposal would close a loophole in the program that allows some businesses to forego recruiting U.S. workers, according the Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Ron Hira. Right now, employers are not required to recruit U.S.

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N.M. House Passes Driver’s License Ban for Illegal Aliens

Thursday, February 9, 2012, 11:00 AM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

Revisiting an issue important to Gov. Susana Martinez, the New Mexico House of Representatives passed legislation to repeal a state law that allows illegal aliens to get New Mexico driver's licenses. Similar legislation passed the House last year but was blocked in the Senate.

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Rep. Stearns Cosponsors Chairman Smith's Legal Workforce Act

Updated Thursday, February 9, 2012, 1:00 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) has cosponsored Chairman Lamar Smith's Legal Workforce Act (H.R.2885) that would require 100% of businesses to use E-Verify within two years. The bill also requires all federal, state, and local governments to E-Verify their entire workforce.

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Florida Billboard Calls Out Gov. Scott on Illegal Immigration

Thursday, February 9, 2012, 8:57 AM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

A new billboard produced by Floridians for Immigration Control calls out Gov. Rick Scott (R) for the state's failure to adopt an E-Verify law.

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The Media's Identity-Theft Blindspot

By Jeremy Beck, Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 10:47 AM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

When the media covers identity theft and fraud as an isolated story, it treats those crimes as serious felonies that adversely impact the lives of victims in real and compelling ways. Young children are often targets, and by the time they realize they have had their identities stolen, the damage has already been done. But when the media covers immigration, it ignores the numerous felonies that aliens have to commit to live and work in the U.S. illegally without being detected.

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Springfield, Mo. Voters Pass E-Verify Initiative

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 10:04 AM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

Voters in Springfield, Mo. approved a measure requiring employers to use E-Verify to determine the workplace eligibility of new hires, KSPR reported. Proponents placed the ordinance on the ballot after the City Council rejected an E-Verify proposal.

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Sen. Grassley Tells Pres. Obama That High-Skilled Workers are Struggling to Find Work

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 8:51 AM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who serves as the Ranking Member of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, sent a letter to Pres. Obama telling him that Jennifer Wedel's story of her unemployed engineer husband is not an isolated case, but a wider, national issue. Sen.

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Wedels Not Satisfied With Getting A Job From the White House, Want H-1B Policy Change

Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 12:02 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

The White House is following up on an offer made by President Obama for Darin Wedel, a semiconductor engineer, according to a report by Computer World.

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Now We Know -- White House Clarifies War On Jobless Higher-Skilled Americans

By Roy Beck, Friday, February 3, 2012, 11:41 AM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

Want to get your blood pressure up? Read the transcript of a White House press conference this week about the insistence that the hundreds of thousands of unemployed high-skilled Americans apparently don't exist. While Pres. Obama was showing compassion to the wife of ONE unemployed high-skill American worker this week in a much-publicized internet exchange, his Administration was making it clear that it will multiply the difficulty of hundreds of thousands of other unemployed high-skill Americans to get a job.

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