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. ;) Contact links to your Congress people: http://www.usayfoundation.org/states/minnesota Yesterday in the Star: http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/189453241.html "....Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar's legislation 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...." Today in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/opinion/americas-genius-glut.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130208 "....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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130208/9bd2f0b3/attachment-0001.html>