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Where is Congress’s Priority when it comes to Immigration?

2008-07-04T12:42:39Z

Not with high-tech businesses seeking well-educated workers.

Not with undocumented students (DREAM Act).

Not with foreign graduates from U.S. colleges and universities.

Not with the farm laborers (AgJOBS).

No, Congress wants to make it easier for supermodels to come to the United States by giving them their own visa work category.

Unable to muster the political will last year to pass comprehensive immigration reform and address the dearth of both unskilled and highly skilled labor that drags on our economy, Congress is now ready to act. Standing tall in the courage of their convictions, lawmakers are proposing to give supermodels their own category of work visa.

The full editorial featured in the LATimes can be read here.

Myanmar death toll climbs over 70 000

2008-10-17T03:30:36Z

More at therealnews.com
Cyclone transforms rice exporting country into rice importer.
Myanmar's cyclone has claimed at least 70,000 casualties. The World Food Programme confirms that the country will need to import rice as well as other foodstuffs. Relief efforts were previously hampered by the reluctance of the regime to issue visas to aid workers as well as logistical problems in reaching those in need. The death toll is expected to rise.

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Lou Dobbs - Problems with the U.S. Legal Immigration System

2008-10-19T21:30:42Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Author, commentator and television personality Lou Dobbs discusses what he sees as problems in America's legal immigration system.

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Lou Dobbs is the anchor and managing editor of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight. Dobbs also anchors a nationally syndicated financial news radio report, The Lou Dobbs Financial Report, and writes a weekly commentary on CNN.com.

n addition to his current book, "Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit," he is also the author of the New York Times bestseller "War on the Middle Class," the best-selling book "Exporting America" and co-author of "Space."

Dobbs has won nearly every major award for television journalism. In 2005, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded Dobbs the Emmy for Lifetime Achievement. The previous year, the National Television Academy awarded Lou Dobbs Tonight an Emmy Award for "Exporting America." He received the George Foster Peabody Award for his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash. In 1990, he was given the Luminary Award by the Business Journalism Review for his "visionary work, which changed the landscape of business journalism in the 1980s."

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