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Source: The uncertain road ahead: Could technology offer hospitals relief from increasing margin pressures? (18-pg PDF)

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Source: 7 facts about H-1B visas

"... Almost 1.8 million H-1B visas have been distributed in fiscal years 2001 through 2015, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. The program, created by the Immigration Act of 1990, allows employers to hire foreigners to work on a temporary basis in jobs that require highly specialized knowledge and a bachelor’s degree or higher..."

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Source: Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) by Location of Origin for CY 2014: Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala

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Source: Vote Results 

The cantonal breakdown of the vote, unsurprisingly la Suisse francophone voted against... plus Zurich, Zug, and Basel-Stadt.

Press release of the Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation: "The Swiss population has adopted a popular initiative aimed at stopping mass immigration. This brings with it a change of system in Switzerland’s immigration policy. The new constitutional provisions require that immigration be restricted by means of quantitative limits and quotas. The Federal Council will set to work on implementing these without delay. 

The new constitutional provisions require that residence permits for foreign nationals be restricted using quantitative limits and quotas. These limits and quotas will apply to all permits covered by legislation on foreign nationals, including cross-border commuters and asylum seekers, and must be geared towards Switzerland’s overall economic interests. Businesses must give Swiss nationals priority when hiring staff. 

The new constitutional text does not specify how high these quotas should be, nor does it specify who should set and allocate them and according to what criteria. These details now need to be defined at the legislative level. The new constitutional provisions stipulate that the Federal Council and parliament have three years to implement the new system"

Two posters in favor of the measure, one against:

 

 

Swiss Vote to Curb Immigration in Referendum
Swiss vote to set limits on immigration from EU
Swiss agree to curb immigration and rethink EU deal

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Source: Diasporas: Mapping Migration (the Economist)

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Source: CBO: A Description of the Immigrant Population: An Update

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Source: bala i ratt...

Nouvelle provocation de la droite populiste en Suisse:

L'UDC, notoirement xénophobe, a reconnu être à l'origine d'une mystérieuse campagne publicitaire qui fait scandale dans le sud du pays. On y voit un Roumain et un Italien - représentés par des rats - grignotant un fromage helvétique.

L'UDC, le parti de droite populiste suisse, notoirement xénophobe, a avoué vendredi être à l'origine d'une mystérieuse campagne publicitaire assimilant Roumains et Italiens à des rats grignotant un fromage helvétique, qui provoque depuis plusieurs jours un scandale dans le Tessin (sud).

La soixantaine d'affiches placardées depuis lundi dans le canton frontalier de l'Italie montrent trois rats à la mine patibulaire, représentant Bogdan, un voleur roumain, Fabrizio, un carreleur italien, ainsi qu'un certain Giulio, avocat qui n'est autre que le ministre italien des Finances, Giulio Tremonti. Avec cette nouvelle campagne, l'UDC entend dénoncer - en substance - l'«invasion» de plus de 40.000 travailleurs frontaliers italiens dans le Tessin ainsi que «la criminalité importée».

The notoriously xenophobic UDC (party) admitted being behind a mysterious ad campaign that is scandalizing the south. On it (the campaign) you see an Italian and a Romanian - represented by rats - nibbling on a Swiss cheese.

The UDC, the notoriously xenophobic, right-wing populist Swiss party, admitted Friday being at the origin of a mysterious advertising campaign likening Italians and Romanians to rats nibbling at a Swiss cheese, which has been causing a scandal for several days in (the canton of ) Ticino (south).

Around sixty posters plastered since Monday in the canton that borders Italy show three sinister-looking rats, representing Bogdan, a Romanian thief, Fabrizio, an Italian tile-layer, and a certain Giulio, a lawyer who turns out to be is none other than Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti. With this new campaign, the SVP intends to attack the "invasion" of the more than 40,000 Italians who cross the border to work in Ticino, as well as "imported criminality."

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Note: The SVP/CDU (Schweizerische Volkspartei, or Swiss People's Party, also known as L'Union Démocratique du Centre, the Democratic Union of the Center) is the same group that became notorious for its posters in favor of the anti-minaret referendum that passed in Switzerland in November 2009, see the previous blog entry 'Direct democracy in action' for some of the posters they used...

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Source: Raising the Floor for American Workers: The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform Study that "... uses a computable general equilibrium model to estimate the economic ramifications of three different scenarios: 1) comprehensive immigration reform that creates a pathway to legal status for unauthorized immigrants in the United States and establishes flexible limits on permanent and temporary immigration that respond to changes in U.S. labor demand in the future; 2) a program for temporary workers only that does not include a pathway to permanent status or more flexible legal limits on permanent immigration in the future; and, 3) mass deportation to expel all unauthorized immigrants and effectively seal the U.S.-Mexico border. The model shows that comprehensive immigration reform produces the greatest economic benefits..." so that "Legalizing the nation’s unauthorized workers and putting new legal limits on immigration that rise and fall with U.S. labor demand would help lay the foundation for robust, just, and widespread economic growth."