Facebook Gets Slapped
More chickens are coming home to roost at Facebook. The purveyor of right wing misinformation just got slapped with a 14 million dollar fine for breaking federal labor laws designed to protect American tech workers.
Work permits for asylum applicants? Slow down
As more asylum seekers arrive in Portland, members of Maine’s congressional
delegation want to accelerate work permits, pointing to labor shortages and taxpayer costs.
But on a closer look, good reasons exist for continuing to require applicants to wait for work
permits.
The unavoidable asylum questions
Our refugee policies were written to rectify the mistake of having denied sanctuary to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. Federal law allows people with a well established fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, etc., to apply for refugee status. A refugee is running for his or her life from fear of persecution, such as the Jews. An economic migrant is moving to get a better paid job.
Support for open borders will be Democrats’ undoing in 2020
Voters (and opinion writers for liberal newspapers) oppose free care for illegal immigrants, decriminalizing illegal crossings and other conspicuously bad ideas.
When high-tech corporations take the low road to cheaper labor
Sen. King be advised: Betraying the American STEM worker is not ‘growing the economy.’ Last year, the Walt Disney Corp. fired 250 tech workers and required them to train their foreign replacements. Southern California Edison did the same to 500 IT workers, saving $20 million annually by paying their replacements barely half of what the fired employees earned. Fired Americans have also trained their foreign replacements at Toys R Us, New York Life, Harley-Davidson, Cargill, Pfizer, Northeast Utilities and others.