Thread: Republicans reignite migrant issue

Republicans reignite migrant issue

By Edward Luce in Washington

Published: February 2 2009 00:10 | Last updated: February 2 2009 00:10

Two years ago opposition to illegal immigration was the biggest lightning rod in US politics. Today it appears virtually to have vanished. But with unemployment marching towards double digits, some Republican lawmakers have started to rekindle the issue.

A series of raids to find and deport illegal immigrants has coincided with a decline in their job prospects in the US
The seeds of this latest potential backlash are not confined just to illegal immigrants. Last week, Chuck Grassley, the Republican senator from Iowa, wrote to Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, urging him first to dismiss foreign workers on H1B visas as part of the company’s 5,000 job cuts during the next 18 months. “Microsoft has a moral obligation to protect these American workers by putting them first during these difficult economic times,â€

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Speaker's Biography:
Edward Luce
Washington Commentator, former South Asia Bureau Chief, Financial Times
Edward Luce is the Washington Commentator and former South Asia Bureau Chief for London's Financial Times. In February 2006, he was named the paper's Washington commentator, writing on the U.S. economy, politics and foreign affairs. Previously, he was the South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi. Between 1997 and 1999, he was the capital markets editor, having joining the Financial Times in 1995 as the Philippines correspondent. Additionally, he was a speechwriter to Larry Summers, then-Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration. His forthcoming book on India, In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India, is scheduled for release in September in the United Kingdom and India, and in January 2007 in the United States. Luce earned a degree in politics, philosophy and economics at the University of Oxford; he earned a postgraduate degree in newspaper journalism at City University in London.

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