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In a speech Wednesday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) declared immigration reform dead. He chastised and baited Republicans in Congress for blocking reform, and declared that winning the White House without the support of a growing Hispanic population will become mathematically impossible. "The Republican Presidential nominee, whoever he or she may be, will enter the race with an electoral college deficit they cannot make up," said Gutierrez. Gutierrez didn't mention the H-1B visa in the speech, but if he's right, and comprehensive immigration reform is indeed dead, then so too is a provision in the bill that would have raised the cap on H-1B visas. Immigration reform advocates have successfully blocked any effort to take up the immigration issue piecemeal. They don't want support for broader reform to peel away.
(Score: 2) by tathra on Saturday June 28 2014, @11:07PM
how do you know that AnonTechie and Soulskill arent the same person? and how do you know that they didn't plagiarize it from us, but posted it to their main page before we did? (you can view pending stories here [soylentnews.org], so people could easily be stealing our stories to post to the green site)
(Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Sunday June 29 2014, @08:56AM
That I can confirm .. I am NOT Soulskill ... I have never had an account on the green site. And, it is highly possible that people could be stealing our stories to post to the green site !!
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 29 2014, @11:32PM
If the posts on both sites are NOT (almost) verbatim, there is NOTHING you can do.
To stop the 'scoops' by the green site, all NCommander has to do is disable the
'firehose' here.
If that was done, I wouldn't mind as I do not read it -- I didn't even know it
existed until now -- is it available to anonymous users? How do you get to it
to read it?
I come here for the NEWS presented to me in an appealing yet minimalist fashion.
Before I left the green site, I had to deal with incessant
'advertorial' stories, a crapy Javascript-driven user interface,
and having to complete CAPTCHAs to post a comment while anonymous.
Here on Soylent News, at the time of this posting, there are (very)
few 'advertorials' that I encounter that can be ignored and
I don't have to complete a CAPTCHA to post a comment.
Most of the stories posted here are either worthwhile scientific stuff
or stories that GENUINELY affect the reader in some way -- health, safety,
rights, privacy, etc.
ADVANTAGE, SOYLENTNEWS! :D