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Is Silicon Valley's immigration agenda gutting the tech industry's middle class?

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Is Silicon Valley's immigration agenda gutting the tech industry's middle class?
Jul 3rd 2013, 13:00, by Ben Popper

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When the Senate passed its new immigration reform bill last week, Mark Zuckerberg took to his Facebook page to celebrate. "A lot of work remains before reform becomes law but today's vote shows that politicians from across the spectrum can come together to vote for reform that will move our economy forward and honor our history as a nation of immigrants," he wrote. Zuckerberg included a link to FWD.us, the political action committee he created to help push immigration reform, which exhorted readers to "Join the tech community in passing immigration reform."

"The workers are being completely ignored."

As it turns out, the tech community is anything but united on this issue. And the push for new reforms has highlighted the divide between...

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