A little-noticed measure passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the governor will extend in-state tuition rates at Washington colleges and universities to some foreign professionals working at companies like Microsoft and Amazon, as well as to their children and spouses. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Turnbull does not go into the whole scandal of H-1B visas that displace American workers, nor provide depth on the degree to which the state budget was sliced and diced, but she nicely presents the story of a former Microsoft employee state representative who is running for higher office getting preferential treatment for his big international corporation former employer.
Not only is Microsoft gaming the unsupervised H-1B system to bring in cheap labor and displace well trained american technical workers, but they are lobbying successfully to get state tax moneys to educate the children of those imported workers. This is at a time of sever budget cuts.
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