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Munro: WashPost Message to U.S. Graduates -- Drop Dead

posted onDecember 22, 2019
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Article snippet: The Washington Post has finally produced an article about Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 green-card giveaway to India’s visa workers — but it excludes the voices of the many American graduates who are losing salaries and careers to the imported population of roughly 1.5 million foreign visa workers. The editors and the author, Abigail Hauslohner, quoted two of the Indian visa workers in the United States, an India-born advocate for the visa workers, two lobbyists for employers, three immigration lawyers, the Koch-funded CATO advocacy group, and the author of the giveaway bill, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. But the article simply ignored the many anonymous — because they are still bound by contracts with the employers who imported their India-born replacements. The Post‘s see-no-dollars skew was unsurprising, partly because Hauslohner covers the concerns of migrants — not business trends, nor labor-supply questions, immigration economics, labor and workplace issues, or even career options for the many white-collar university graduates who fill her social circle. But the Washington Post‘s role is also questionable because Hauslohner and her editors are employed by Jeff Bezos. His Amazon company is lobbying for Lee’s outsourcing bill, and his ambition to expand into the Indian market can be held hostage by the Indian government, which is also lobbying for passage of the Lee bill. Hauslohner’s focus on immigrants skews the entire article away from the concerns shared by millions of ... Link to the full article to read more

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