By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times
The Senate’s immigration bill will raise national security risks and the Obama administration will do little more than “rubber-stamp” illegal immigrants into the program, endangering Americans, says the labor union representing the 12,000 employees who will have to approve the applications.
Now that IRS officials have been caught red-handed targeting conservative organizations, it is reasonable to ask whether officials at other federal agencies also need more careful oversight. In the IRS’s case, the problem was systematic and involved direct orders from superiors, but no fair estimation of politically-motivations affect agency decisions can ignore the fact that in most instances it would not be systematic or have such a clearly stated policy. Immigration decisions provide a useful case and point.
The Washington Post
To the U.S. technology industry, there’s a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some Democrats, it’s more sinister: The push by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to expand the number of visas for high-tech foreign workers is an attempt to dilute a lucrative job market with cheap, indentured labor.
By Adrian Florido, kalw.org
As head of the 800,000-member Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, Maria Elena Durazo is one of the nation’s most powerful union leaders, and a key player in the ongoing immigration reform negotiations. But before her current post, she led a hotel workers’ union.
RedState.com On Friday (as noted here), AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka and U.S. Chamber head
By Erica Werner, The Seattle Times Big business and labor have struck a deal on
By Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post The Service Employees International Union is launching a cable
By Sean Higgins, The Washington Examiner The Service Employees International Union applauded Kentucky Republican Senator
