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Date: Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:53 AM

<<<<< JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER No. 1719 -- 6/27/2007 >>>>>

The story about the Cohen&Grigsby immigration seminar keeps getting bigger.
Here are some links to stories that have appeared on CNN and local TV news.
Be sure to check out the first link since those have the original video clips
that the law firm pulled off youtube in a vain attempt to avoid controversy.

http://lyrelyrepantzandfier.com/
Entire Immigration Seminar Video Clips
(web page still being developed)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqGBIHmv7jo
Glenn Beck -- Cohen&Grigsby seminar 6/26/2007 (Transcript provided below)

http://cbs5.com/video/?id=24476@kpix.dayport.com
Unemployed tech workers cry foul over propsed immigration bill, 6/26/2007
(Eventually this URL will go away and they will archive it for awhile. Use
the search engine if the link doesn't work.)

http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_173211114.html
YouTube Video On Foreign Workers Stirs Debate, 6/22/2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMeSTlNLNkw
Lou Dobbs -- Cohen&Grigsby seminar Part 2: 6/22/2007
(Transcript provided below)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsp2V3ifZjM
Lou Dobbs -- Cohen&Grigsby seminar Part 1: 6/17/2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
Programmer's Guild Video, 6/16/2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z40hZpWfYcc
Matt Phillips on CNBC
This lawyer was on CNBC just 5 days before he was on the seminar panel --
and of course he was lobbying for more H-1B visas. 5/10/2007

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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/26/gb.01.html

GLENN BECK

Aired June 26, 2007 - 19:00:00 ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY
BE UPDATED.

BECK: Buckle up, America. Here it comes.

If you think Congress is slippery at making the law, let`s shift gears
here. Let`s look at the lawyers and the consultants who are even worse when
it comes to skirting the laws that are already in place that nobody is
enforcing.

Recently, a video appeared on YouTube -- oh, how did we survive without
YouTube -- that shows a seminar being led by Cohen and Grigsby. This is a
Pittsburgh law firm that offers counseling to businesses on how to avoid
the messy practice of hiring American workers and rigging the system so
they can hire cheaper immigrant labor. Watch this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our goal here, of course, is to meet the requirements,
No. 1, but, also, do so as inexpensively as possible, keeping in mind our
goal.

And our goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker.
Our objective is to get this person a green card and to get through the
labor certification process.

So certainly we are not going try to find the place where the applicants
are going to be most numerous. We`re going to try to find a place where,
again, we`re complying with the law and hoping, and likely, not to find
qualified and interested worker applicants.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: Where is the outrage, America? This is unbelievable. This is not a
conspiracy. They`re out in the open.

Joining me now is Jack Shea, president of Allegheny County Labor Council.

Jack, first of all, these guys are not breaking the law. They`re absolutely
within their right of everything that they said, right?

JACK SHEA, ALLEGHENY COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL, AFL-CIO: Well, they`re breaking
the moral law. Let`s face it.

BECK: The spirit of the law.

SHEA: They`re disqualifying. That`s what they`re doing. Skilled workers to
be able to find employment.

Now, let`s face it, the middle class has eroded. You know it, and I know
it, and we have to -- all are struggling to try to maintain the middle
class.

Now all of a sudden this thing shows up on YouTube, and guess what? This is
their seventh annual immigration seminar.

And I just happen to wonder how many people, not only in Pittsburgh and
other parts of this country, who were qualified to get good paying, skilled
jobs were disqualified on account of all these maneuvers and all these --
and this is something the Department of Labor ought to look into.

Before any immigration bill or anything is passed, we got to find out.

DOBBS: I -- Jack, where are the -- where are the congressmen that used to
stand up, I`m fighting so we`re not outsourcing? Let me tell you something,
outsourcing jobs is a dream come true at this point.

At least the people in India are not also taking our services, Social
Security and Medicare and Medicaid and our hospitals.

SHEA: Well, it seems to me that it`s got a little too expensive, maybe, for
some of these corporations to ship our jobs overseas, so now what they want
to do bring is cheap labor to America and get the work done as cheaply as
possible.

Let`s not kid each other, OK? It`s this simple. If we all stand up and be
against this stuff and don`t get the stuff investigated, it`s going to
continue, and we`re not going to know about it.

I am just glad that whoever invented that small camera that nobody knows
where it`s at can be anywhere, and they better watch themselves.

BECK: I`ve got to tell you, it`s my understanding that this company put
this up themselves on the web site. This is not a hidden camera scenario.
They filmed this thing. They`re not ashamed of this. This company, as far
as I understand...

SHEA: Well, they took it off. Glenn -- Glenn, they took it off. They took
it off, I understand.

BECK: Of course, they did.

SHEA: Because of the outrage. It`s not right. It`s not fair to the worker.
And let`s face it, when we start losing three million manufacturing jobs in
this country, now what we want to do is -- we want our folks -- we want our
folks to just start over again. And we get them to get skilled work, and
look what happens.

BECK: Well, I`ll tell you. One job many Americans seem like they don`t have
a problem doing at all, and that`s screwing America over.

Jack, thanks a lot.

SHEA: OK, Glenn.

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http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_173211114.html

Jun 22, 2007 7:00 pm US/Pacific

YouTube Video On Foreign Workers Stirs Debate

Sue Kwon
Reporting

(CBS 5) A video posted on YouTube is stirring anger and debate in Silicon
Valley. It shows attorneys with Cohen & Grigsby telling their corporate
clients how to get around Federal rules around hiring foreign workers.

"Our goal is not to find a qualified U.S. worker," the attorney at the
podium said in the video. "That, in a sense, sounds funny but that is what
we are trying to do here."

It's no secret foreign workers often come highly skilled with lower
salaries. A system administrator who wanted to be identified only as "Dave"
defended outsourcing in the technology industry.

"My company has job openings and it's hard to find good people, even junior
people not just senior people," he said.

The Programmers Guild is an anti-outsourcing group with 1,500 members says
nonsense. The group edited and reposted the law firm's clips on YouTube
after the law firm pulled down video of the full session.

"We estimate tens of thousands of Americans lose job opportunities to the
tactics shown in that Cohen & Grigsby video," said Kim Berry, President of
the Programmers Guild.

Kim says the video has prompted 2 lawmakers to call on Labor Secretary
Elaine Chao to investigate unfair practices where companies call for
applications with no intent to hire close to home.

The attorney in the video is heard saying. "If necessary, you (companies)
have to schedule an interview to find a legal basis to disqualify them (US
applicants) for this position. In most cases this doesn't seem to be a
problem."

Cohen & Grigsby would not allow CBS5 to view the session in its entirety
and issued a statement.

"We regret the choice of words that was used during a small segment of the
seminar," the statement said. "It is unfortunate that these statements have
been commandeered and misused, which runs contrary to our intent."

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