San Antonio Express Idiotrial

Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:28 AM

<<<<< JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER No. 1517 -- 07/11/2006 >>>>>

An idiotorial in the San Antonio Express-News masquerades as an editorial
but it's actually a plant by the special interest lobby group
CompeteAmerica. The SA Express is guilty of a gross violation of
journalistic ethics because they intentionally called it an editorial
instead of an op-ed. Readers of the newspaper have no way of knowing that
the editorial was a shill plant by CompeteAmerica.

CompeteAmerica calls their propaganda campaign "editorial support". They
aren't shy about listing their newspaper plants on the following webpage:
http://www.competeamerica.org/editorials/index.html

To fully understand the breech of ethics the SA Express has made, read this
excerpt about the difference between editorials and op-eds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editorial

Editorials are (usually short) opinion pieces, written by members
of the editorial board of the paper. They reflect the stance of
the paper and do not have bylines.

The opinions expressed on op-ed pages reflect those of the
individual authors, not the paper. The articles have bylines and
are usually written by individual free-lance writers or syndicated
columnists. Sometimes editorial writers write signed columns for
the op-ed page.

The idiotorial didn't mention the Skil bill by name, but it's the only
legislation they could be referring to:

Both the Senate and the House have advanced bipartisan legislation
that would raise the quota on H-1B visas for highly skilled
workers.

The Skil bill was sponsored in the Senate by George Allen (R-VA) and in the
House by John Shadegg (R-AZ).

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http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/editorials/stories/MYSA071006.01O.visas2ed.4ed0be.html

http://www.competeamerica.org/editorials/index.html

Editorial: Raising the H1-B quota serves national interest

Web Posted: 07/10/2006 12:01 AM CDT

San Antonio Express-News

While the debate about illegal immigration has careened off the political
tracks, an equally important discussion about legal immigration has
actually generated some progress in Washington.

Both the Senate and the House have advanced bipartisan legislation that
would raise the quota on H-1B visas for highly skilled workers.

The top three categories for H-1B applicants are information system
analysts and programmers, computer-related occupations and college
professors and researchers. H-1B visas allow U.S. businesses, universities
and other research institutions to draw on an international talent pool of
the best and the brightest.

But H-1B visas are now capped at an unrealistically low level. In 2004,
Congress reimposed a limit of 65,000 H-1B visas annually.

For fiscal year 2006, the United States Citizenship and Immigration
Services announced it had received enough applications to meet the quota
more than a month before the year began. For fiscal year 2007, which begins
Oct. 1, USCIS received enough applications to fill the allotment last
month.

The legislation under consideration in Congress would lift the cap from
65,000 to 115,000 H1-B visas annually. That's a very modest increase of
only 50,000 skilled job seekers in an economy that employs nearly 150
million. But those immigrants are critical for keeping the nation's
competitive edge in science, technology and medical research.

Creating rational policies for legal immigration is one part of a solution
to the illegal immigration problem. Raising the H1-B quota serves the
national interest and is the unimaginably -- for this Congress -- pragmatic
thing to do.

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