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How-Not-to-Hire-U.S.-Workers Law Firm Fires Back

Posted by Zonk on from the those-rascally-scamps dept.

theodp writes "Congress is now calling for a Dept. of Labor investigation into a Pittsburgh law firm after a video showing its attorneys advising employers how to game the immigration system was posted on YouTube. Cohen & Grigsby, the firm in question, issued a statement insisting their statements were commandeered and misused, but would not allow CBS to view the original video in its entirety. Cohen & Grigsby has also been advising employers since 2002 that they have nothing to fear if they keep employees in the dark about the existence of DOL-required H-1B Public Access Files."

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  1. I think their punishment should be by antifoidulus · · Score: 3, Funny

    they should be forced to give their jobs to low paid H1B workers.

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    Monstar L
  2. Re:Moot by flyingfsck · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yup, pretty soon Americans will be sneaking across the border into Mexico to find work...

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    Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
  3. With apologies to Shakespeare by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    First, let's outsource all the lawyers.

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  4. Darn, too many immigration stories lately... by Tatisimo · · Score: 3, Funny

    First fruit picking robots, then this. I suggest companies start developing robots to take over the lawyer's jobs. Then the robot lawyers could start telling employees how to cheat the system into somehow unethically profiting off their robotic workers (pirated software on them, maybe?). Then, seeing how corrupt employees are, replace them with robots, leaving us humans to enjoy life.

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    Give Kashyyyk back to the Wookies
  5. Not going to happen in America by symbolset · · Score: 4, Funny

    Forcing lawyers to do honest work is prohibited by the clause in the Constitution that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.

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    Help stamp out iliturcy.
  6. Re:their website by Crizp · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sitting atedesco reading email all the time, he never gets a spare moment.

  7. Pectoral fin slapping! by HornWumpus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bad land shark, no cocaine for you!

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    John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
  8. Re:Moot by Sj0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You laugh, but the US dollar really is in trouble. It's a short 4-5 cents before the Canadian dollar is above the US dollar, for the first time in 30 years. At the rate we're going(In 1992 the canadian dollar was 30 cents lower than the US dollar), our companies really will be hiring illegal American immigrants.

    Actually, I love that thought. I want to hire one of you to be my maid.

    "Mr. Smith, if you want to live in a country, you'd better learn how to write in our language. If I see ONE MORE "color", or "honor", or even a "gray" in my paperwork, I'm sending you back to your home country, where you can die in poverty. Do I make myself clear?"

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    It's been a long time.