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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Honestly, immigration here is a joke as
      it is... especially when it comes down to worker visas.<br>
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      Not trying to go political - it's just a disaster and no one
      person or group can really, truly, fix it.<br>
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      On 2/8/2013 9:48 AM, Ubu Sumner wrote:<br>
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          font-size: 12pt;">I don't expect a discussion of this here,
          since it's stretching the TCLUG mission perhaps, but I'm
          hoping some of you might appreciate a gentle suggestion to put
          your opinion into an email, whatever that might be. The horse
          may be out of the barn for Klobuchar on this issue, but
          sometimes it helps anyway to write a thoughtful letter. If you
          agree with her you can send her a thank you note. ;)</div>
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          links to your Congress people:</div>
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            style="font-size: 16.363636016845703px;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.usayfoundation.org/states/minnesota">http://www.usayfoundation.org/states/minnesota</a></span><br>
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            style="font-size: 16.363636016845703px;">Yesterday in the
            Star:</span></div>
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        <div style="background-color: transparent;"><span><span
              style="font-size: 16.363636016845703px;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/189453241.html">http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/189453241.html</a></span><br>
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              style="font-size: 16.363636016845703px;">"....</span></span><span
            style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Verdana,
            Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">Minnesota </span><a
            moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/188777081.html"
            style="color: rgb(11, 71, 141); font-family: Arial, Verdana,
            Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"><u>Sen.
              Amy Klobuchar's legislation</u></a><span style="color:
            rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica,
            sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"> to increase
            H-1B visas and green card quotas is welcome and will help
            the U.S. economy. The jobs that are offered will only be
            located where there are not sufficient qualified local
            citizens...."</span></div>
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            style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Verdana,
            Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;">Today
            in the New York Times:</span></div>
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              color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica,
              sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/opinion/americas-genius-glut.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130208">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/opinion/americas-genius-glut.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130208</a></span></font><br>
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          51); font-size: 17.27272605895996px; font-family: Arial,
          Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span
            style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Verdana,
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              style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia, 'times
              new roman', times, serif; font-size: 19.09090805053711px;
              line-height: 27.5px;">"....Bringing over more — there are
              already 500,000 workers on H-1B visas — would obviously
              darken job prospects for America’s struggling young
              scientists and engineers. But it would also hurt our
              efforts to produce more: if the message to American
              students is, “Don’t bother working hard for a high-tech
              degree, because we can import someone to do the job for
              less,” we could do significant long-term damage to the
              high-tech educational system we value so dearly.</span><br>
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