From Norm Matloff’s H-1B/L-1/offshoring e-newsletter.

Norm Matloff writes:

Recall that the Dept. of Labor recently announced an audit of the Fragomen law firm, the largest in the U.S., alleging that Fragomen’s attorneys got improperly involved in clients’ hiring, supposedly trying to talk the clients out of hiring qualified American applicants. My take on it was the while Fragomen was probably within the law, the case illustrates how use of loopholes to avoid hiring Americans in favor of foreign workers being sponsored for green cards is standard operating procedure, including for America’s biggest firms and most prominent immigration attorneys. See my previous postings on this here and here.

As mentioned in these posts, the Lou Dobbs show, [below]as well as an earlier San Francisco TV news report, featured David Huber, who believes that he observed Fragomen’s misdeeds in action, with himself as victim. Fragomen’s PR firm now is going after Huber, as seen in the enclosure below.[ Fragomen Statement And Letter From Ad AgencyImmigration Daily ]

The Fragomen statement is not much of a denial, even though it’s written to sound like one. It consists mainly of denying “accusations” that to my knowledge haven’t been made in the first place.

To me, the most interesting passage, though, is Fragomen’s characterization of Huber as a “committed opponent of immigration.” I know Dave Huber, but I don’t recall him expressing any opinions on immigration in general, other than H-1B and employer-sponsored green cards. And of course, the implication is also that anyone who in fact does wish to reduce immigration overall is a Bad Person.

The further hint there is that Huber’s opposition to the foreign worker programs stems not from their adverse impact on his ability to make a living, but rather because he is simply xenophobic. The industry lobbyists have long made such statements, which basically claim that people like Huber would be perfectly happy if a white Canadian took away his job, but would be outraged if he lost his job to someone from India. Only someone whose job has never been in jeopardy could believe such an absurd claim.

Happy 4th, everyone.

Norm

In recent days it came to light that Mayor Gavin Newsom and his smug leftist cadre running city government have spent millions of dollars to protect illegal alien criminals from federal enforcement, in particular Honduran crack dealers claiming to be juveniles. Many residents of the sanctuary city by the Bay have become outraged at the events and regard the city’s behavior as a shocking scandal.

Really.

As ultra-liberal as San Francisco may seem at times, elites coddling foreign criminals is over the line for most folks in the city, as shown by the local CBS affiiate’s poll earlier this week: SF ‘Sanctuary’ Policy Questioned After Escape (Poll info is contained in July 1 video). Answering the question “Should San Francisco turn over convicted illegal immigrants for deportation?” 79 percent answered “Yes.”

The media love to misclassify immigration enforcement as a far-right issue, although there is nothing more mainstream than support for borders and sovereignty. Polls consistently show that Americans across the political spectrum want immigration to be a legally controlled endeavor — even in San Francisco!

There was a time, now apparently fading into history, when there was freedom of speech in England. In fact, without it, a parliamentary system–where argument is matched for argument and insult for insult–cannot exist, if you think about it. The antithesis is the Zimbabwean approach.

White man convicted of racial abuse after making ‘honky’ jibe at WHITE security guards
By Emily Andrews MailOnline,  July 2008

sounds like a joke. It is not. Essentially, a young man passing a mild insult, suddenly finds himself in a serious legal situation for an obviously absurd taunt:

‘I apologised profusely to the security guards and explained that I was having a laugh. I am white and they are white, so I don’t understand how that can make me racist.
‘It does seem a complete waste of time and money. Surely there are better things for the police and Crown Prosecution Service to be spending their time on?’

Even worse was the reaction of the above mentioned CPS

In a statement the CPS said: ‘It’s not a waste of time taking this case to court if he has pleaded guilty.

‘There were some serious crimes on the indictment, so we were right to take action.’ Wicks was bailed and will be sentenced on July 17.’

Since

Wicks… pleaded guilty on the advice of his solicitor. (VDARE.com note; British for lawyer)

this puts the CPS in the position of saying that if they are able coerce a plea, therefore they were right to charge. I have a feeling this concept was rejected in English law close to a thousand years ago (input, VDARE.com lawyers?).

Appalling though this is for those who valued the old social traditions of Britain, the Mail.com also carries a warning who think these changes good

Teenage girl walks free after stabbing to death 17-year-old rival in gang fight
By Rebecca Camber, July 3, 2008

Black girl confronts White girl in altercation. One stabs the other–efficiently–death results. In America, Who? Who?

Wrong. The white girl, Chelsea Bennet, won, and is depressingly good looking.

In the last century, street fighting in the U.K., although occurring, rarely involved weapons of any sort. Knife fighting is a recent importation.

On a simplistic reading of the Richard Lynn thesis, we should all be speaking Mandarin and learning to write this ridiculous Chinese script. The spirit of Chelsea Bennet, “white trash” though she may be, is the reason why this did not happen.

History never ends.