Analysis conducted last year reveal that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers.
Business Slams Draft Curbs on White-Collar Illegal Migrants
Business groups, labor brokers, and migration advocates are protesting a draft regulation that would open up many thousands of outsourced white-collar jobs to debt-burdened U.S. graduates.
The regulation would put a four-year limit on the F-1 student visas, instead of the current lax rules which allow unsupervised and unlimited stays. Many foreigners use the lax rules to overstay their visas and to work for many years illegally in white-collar jobs, often in Fortune 500 gig-worker jobs that are needed by U.S. graduates to launch their careers.
“The foreign graduates are in competition with American graduates for jobs, and industry likes this because it is yet another source of labor,” said John Miano, a lawyer with the Immigration Reform Law Institute.
There is no reliable data about the resident number of white-collar overstays, Miano said. “Deliberate ignorance has been part of the [government’s] political strategy” to hide the economic impact of the legal and illegal white-collar foreign workers in the United States, he said.
For example, the officials do not have an accounting that would count the number of H-1B visa workers in the United States, he said. In 2020, DHS estimated a resident population of roughly 600,000 H-1B workers, he said, adding that his estimate is roughly one million H-1B.
U.S. graduates have seen fewer wage gains in recent years, partly because many CEOs prefer to outsource hiring to many large and small subcontractors. In turn, the unsupervised subcontractors hire and fire an ever-shifting mix of visa workers and Americans for a variety of no-benefits gig-worker jobs.
Indian immigrants tell Breitbart News that many subcontractors hire overstay illegals to fill the outsourced Fortune 500 jobs. These migrant gig-workers often work for sub-minimum wages because they hope to eventually win the green cards that are dangled by Congress and employers.
This Green Card Economy includes at least 1.3 million foreign graduates who arrived via the H-1B, J-1, L-1, Optional Practical Training (OPT), Curricular Practical Training (CPT), or H4EAD workforce pipelines. For example, the H-1B program includes at least 600,000 workers; the H4EAD program includes at least 100,000 workers, while the OPT and CPT programs keep at least 400,000 foreign workers in U.S. white-collar and technology jobs.
The new rules also include the J-1 visas that are used by many universities to import “scholars” and “Postdocs.” In reality, these foreigners work as cheap laboratory workers, technicians, and teachers in the jobs needed by the many American graduates who have paid tens of thousands of dollars in tuition to those universities.
The presence of these many legal and illegal foreign workers ensures a loose labor market where employers never have to compete against each other for U.S. graduates, for example, by offering full-time employment, benefits, and decent wages.
Many CEOs also prefer visa workers because the workers are compliant and disposable. For example, the workers are employed and swapped by a dizzying variety of subcontractors who can move blocs of labor from one city to the next, to fill short term contracts, with little notice or compensation to the disposable workers.
Most of these green card workers are also part of the U.S.-India Outsourcing Economy. The outsourcing economy allows U.S. investors to boost stock values by hiring blocs of cheap Indian graduates for U.S. jobs, and by moving jobs to India after Indians are trained by Americans who were doing the jobs.
Many of the investors who gain from this cheap labor are part of FWD.us, a D.C.-based advocacy group that works with the universities to preserve the labor pipelines. Todd Schulte, the director of FWD.us, denounced the drat rule:
This is intended to radically reduce ability of US universities to be top destination from around the world. To purge higher ed of people not born in the US.
Eliminating US preeminence in higher education eliminates a pillar of America’s fortunes for over a century. Awful stuff. https://t.co/ew5OnuMDoi
— Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) September 24, 2020
The draft curbs are also opposed by the labor brokers who import foreign workers for the Fortune 500.
“This proposed rule is stunningly bad for the U.S.,” said Greg Siskind, who imports foreign graduates for U.S. healthcare jobs.
“This is a disaster,” said a tweet from an advocate for Indian migration. “Students will no longer want to come to U.S.”
“Let’s dive into this latest thicket of useless red tape,” said immigration lawyer Doug Rand. Under current rules, “your student visa lasts until you’ve finished your studies; there’s no hard expiration date,” he said.
The new rules say that foreign with F-1 visas can only stay for four years, and may not get an extension, he said. If the foreigner overstays their visa, they will trigger the so-called “3/10 rule,” which bars illegals from reentering the United States for three or ten years. That is a big deterrent to foreign graduates, many of whom hope to return to the United States for work or migration.
The curbs are tighter for some foreigners. For example, foreigners from chaotic countries, or who get F-1 visas to attend unaccredited “visa mill” colleges, or who come to study English, can only stay for two years. That two-year rule is likely intended to choke the flow of Indian workers who are using colleges and the F-1 visas to get jobs.
At least 200,000 Indians are using F-1 student visas, many of whom are in the U.S. to find jobs.
Migration advocates also complained about the draft curbs.
“I held a student visa for a four-year degree,” said Akbar Shahid Ahmed, a Yale graduate, an accomplished foreign affairs reporter for the Huffington Post, and an immigrant from Pakistan. He continued:
It gave me a year to work afterwards too–which let me establish skills & a record that got me a pathway to another visa. Trump wants to destroy that route for millions of other people who want to contribute to this country.
“The rule would make [the overstay problem] worse,” said David Bier, a migration advocate at the Cato Institute. “By imposing the 3-10-year bars on F overstays, it would increase the number of illegal immigrants who have no reason to ever leave the country since they’d have no way to legally return,” he told Breitbart News.
If Trump loses his 2020 campaign, the draft rule will likely be dismissed by Joe Biden, who is promising a high-migration, low-wage labor policy favored by Wall Street and by Democratic elites in New York and California.
In contrast, Trump promises a “pro-American Immigration ” policy that is likely to boost wages and the workplace status of U.S. professionals. Under Trump, the inflow of foreign graduates is declining, so improving career prospects for U.S. graduates.
2019 was such a good year for wage earners that per-household income rose by almost 7%, even as wages rose by just a little over 2%.
That won't happen again if businesses and progressives get to import even more workers. https://t.co/gHlh42iUcd— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) September 16, 2020
While America’s working and middle class have been
subjected to compete for jobs against a constant flow of
cheaper foreign workers — where more than 1.2 million
mostly low-skilled immigrants are admitted to the country
annually — the billionaire class has experienced historic
salary gains." Sen. Josh Hawley
Analysis conducted last year reveal that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers.
"This is how they will destroy
America from within. The leftist billionaires who
orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing
us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of
millions of migrants. They have nothing but contempt
for those of us who must endure the consequences of our
communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and
human traffickers. These people have no intention
of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have
contempt for us." PATRICIA
McCARTHY
“Behind the ostensible government sits
enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no
responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul
the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first
task of the statesmanship of today.” THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
THE ENTIRE REASON FOR OPEN
BORDERS, AMNESTY, NON-ENFORCEMENT, AND NO E-VERIFY IS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
IT WORKS!
ALL BILLIONAIRES ARE DEMOCRATS
FOR AMNESTY AND WIDER OPEN BORDERS!
Desperate
to ensure profits, capital has gutted the living
standards of the working class while engrossing the coffers
of those at the top through financial parasitism.
Study finds 90
percent of Americans would
make 67 percent
more without last four
decades of
increasing income inequality
25 September 2020
A new study from the RAND Corporation, “Trends in Income
From 1975 to 2018,” written by Carter Price and Kathryn Edwards, provides new
documentation of the profound restructuring of class relations in America over
the last 40 years.
The study, which looks at changes in pre-tax family
income from 1947 to 2018, divided into quintiles of the American population,
concludes that the bottom 90 percent of the population would, on average, make
67 percent more in income—every year (!)—had shifts in income inequality not
occurred the last four decades.
In other words, any family that made less than $184,292
(the 90th percentile income bracket) in 2018 would be, on average, making 67
percent more. This amounts to a total sum of $2.5 trillion of collective lost
income for the bottom 90 percent, just in 2018.
Furthermore, the study concludes, that had more equitable
growth continued after 1975 (a date they use as a shifting point), the bottom
90 percent of American households would have earned a total of $47 trillion
more in income.
Given that there were about 115 million households in the
bottom 90 percent of the US in 2018 population (out of a total of 127.59 million
in 2018), that would mean that each of these households would, on average, be
$408,696 richer today with this lost income.
To reach these conclusions, the authors break down
historical real, pre-tax, income into different quintiles of the population
(bottom fifth, second fifth, third fifth, fourth fifth, highest fifth). Looking
at the period between 1947 and 2018, they divide the years based on business
cycles (booms and busts of the economy).
Their data quantitatively expresses the restructuring of
class relations that began at the end of the post-WWII boom. Facing intensified
economic crisis, automation, and global competition, the US ruling class
undertook an aggressive campaign of deindustrialization, slashing wages and
clawing back benefits won in the previous period by explosive struggles of the
working class, while simultaneously funneling money to financial markets,
expanding the wealth and income of both the upper and upper-middle class.
As the data shows, while the bottom 40 percent of American
households made significant percentile increases to their income, relative to
the top 5 percent, for the 20 years between 1947 and 1968, in the 40 years from
1980 to the present, this trend was reversed. In 1980-2000, the bottom 40
percent of the population experienced a net income gain significantly below
that of the top 5 percent. It must be noted that because these are percentile
increases, the absolute differences between the gains of the rich versus the
poor is far larger.
Furthermore, not included in this data is wealth. In the
last 40 years, and especially the last 10 to 20 years, the stock market has become
the principal means through which the top 10 percent of the population has
piled up historic levels of wealth.
Significantly, the data from 2001 to
2018 shows a sharp slowdown in income gains for all sections of American
society as per capita GDP growth slowed and US capitalism experienced a
historic decline. However, while the income of the top 5
percent of the population may have only grown by about 2 percent between 2008
and 2018, the wealth of the top percentiles of the
population exploded. For example, according to data from the Federal Reserve of
St. Louis, the wealth of the top 1 percent of the population increased from
almost $20 trillion in the first quarter of 2008, just before the worst of the
financial crisis, to almost $33 trillion at the beginning of 2018.
By using the data, the authors come up with a set of
counterfactual incomes based on what would be the different income brackets in
2018 without a shift in income distribution. The top 1 percent, instead of
making on average $1,384,000 would make $630,000. The 25th percentile, instead
of making $33,000 would make $61,000.
The authors of the study also make several other important
observations by breaking down their data on the basis of location, education,
and race.
For example, they note, “Racial income disparities below
the median have declined over the last four decades. This has primarily
occurred because White men in the bottom half of the income distribution are
earning the same or less than in 1975.” In other words, for the bottom half of
the population, the bulk of the working class, there has been greater parity
between sexes and races in terms of pay as white men’s pay stagnated and pay
for other sections of the working class slightly increased.
While black men in the bottom 25th percentile of the
population only increased their income from $27,000 in 1975 to $30,000 in 2018,
black men in the 95th percentile, the upper-middle class, increased their pay
from $65,000 in 1975 to $128,000—effectively doubling it.
Regarding education, they note: “Because incomes for those
without a college degree have not increased more than inflation over the last
forty years, education is frequently touted as a solution to rising income
inequality. However, even for college graduates, incomes failed to grow at the
rate of the overall growth of the economy. Thus, the economic value of a
college degree may largely be in avoiding the negative outcomes felt by those
who do not have one. …”
This saliently expresses what a college degree has become
for most Americans: a necessity to avoid extreme poverty but in no way a
guarantee of a well-paying, stable job.
The authors also note that “Incomes in rural areas have neither
kept pace with the growth in broader economy nor with urban and suburban
areas,” due to “a decline in the economic health of rural areas.”
The stark class divide expressed in the report is not the
outcome of a single politician or for that matter a specific party. Rather, it
is the policy, collectively, of the entire ruling class, as American, and
indeed global, capitalism entered a period of profound and protracted
crisis. Desperate to ensure profits, capital has gutted the living
standards of the working class while engrossing the coffers of those at the top
through financial parasitism.
Tucker Carlson: ‘America’s Core Problems Are
Not Racial — America’s Core Problems Are
Economic’
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14:19
Thursday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson opened
his program with a monologue dissecting the latest round of turmoil in
America’s streets spurred by the announcement of a grand jury’s finding on the
Breonna Taylor episode in Louisville, KY.
Carlson argues that the country’s problems are not racial
but economic, explaining that “a small group of people have a disproportionate
amount of money.”
He suggested that for those “on the right end of that
equation,” it may behoove them to “fund racial conflict,” so those on the wrong
end of the equation would not think about it from that viewpoint.
Transcript as follows:
CARLSON: It’s hard to think clearly when things are on
fire. That’s a basic rule of life, that may be why looking back on it, we’ve
seen so much arson recently.
If you wanted to keep the public from thinking clearly
about what you plan to do to their country, you might riot and no one would
notice that you’re lying. They definitely have been lying.
Every story we’ve been told for the past three months has
been at its core, a lie, all of them from the first day.
George Floyd was executed by racist cops on the street.
That’s what they told us. That’s what everyone believed. Yet when the autopsy
became public, it showed that George Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl in his
system among other drugs. Floyd said he couldn’t breathe long before police
landed on him as he was in fact sitting untouched in the back of a patrol car.
But the mob wasn’t interested in hearing those details.
They torched Minneapolis.
In Kenosha, Democrats told us that bloodthirsty cops just
walked up and shot Jacob Blake as he was trying to break up a fight between two
women. It was horrifying. But that’s not what happened.
Police arrived there after a woman called 911 to say Blake
was at her home in violation of a restraining order. That woman had previously
accused Blake of sexual assault. Blake fought with the responding officers,
first cops tried non-lethal force to subdue him. They Tased Blake, that didn’t
work.
When they saw him reach for a knife, they shot him. What
else were they supposed to do exactly?
But Kamala Harris wasn’t interested in knowing what
actually happened. She declared that she was proud of Jacob Blake and then her
voters burned Kenosha.
Tonight, the mob is in Louisville to protest the death of
Breonna Taylor. News organizations told us that Taylor was in bed when police
shot her. But she wasn’t, she was in her hallway. They told us that Taylor had
nothing to do with her drug-dealing ex-boyfriend whom police were
investigating. That’s why they were there.
In fact, intercepted jailhouse communication suggests that
Taylor was warehousing that man’s drug money. They told us that police shot
first. That’s not true. Taylor’s boyfriend shot a cop first.
Then they told us over and over and over again that police
surprised Taylor in the middle of the night. They barged into her apartment in
a so-called no-knock raid. Then yesterday the Attorney General of Kentucky
exposed that as yet another lie.
The police did in fact knock on Breonna Taylor’s door. They
identified themselves as police. There’s a witness to it. But it didn’t matter.
They kept lying to us.
Kamala Harris issued a statement attacking no-knock raids.
Amazingly, so did Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, a Republican. Tim Scott
should know better.
A grand jury did know better. The jurors considered all of
the available evidence in the Breonna Taylor case. And yesterday, they declined
to charge the officers with murder. There wasn’t any evidence that a murder
took place.
That is how our system is supposed to work. We don’t indict
the innocent. That’s wrong. It’s not justice. But the mob doesn’t care about
justice no matter what they scream. They want blood.
So with the encouragement of so many of our leaders, they
unleashed violence on the City of Louisville. They set fires. They destroyed
businesses, then to the surprise of no one, they opened fire on the police.
Here are scenes of it.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Shots fired. Shots fired.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I’m good.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You all good?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I’m good.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right there. Right there. Officer
down, right there.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Officer down?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We’ve got an officer down.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Two police officers were shot last night in
Louisville. They’re not the only police officers who have been shot recently
for political reasons. They’re just the latest. That’s not front-page news. No,
it’s not front-page news.
Tonight, thank God, both of those officers are still alive.
A man called Lorenzo Johnson is under arrest for shooting them. It seems clear this
was not a street crime. It seems clear these were attempted political
assassinations.
Lorenzo Johnson’s social media posts don’t look very
different from Kamala Harris’s Twitter feed, pro-BLM, outraged by the racist
killing of Breonna Taylor.
Whipped into a frenzy by media-generated lies, it is not
surprising that people like Johnson will try to murder the police. In fact,
they told us last night before they did that they plan to do that.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All y’all get ready to [bleep] die.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: “Get ready to die.” Now that’s not the kind of
thing liberal suburban moms are thinking when they plant BLM signs on their
lawns. But that’s the reality of it. BLM leaders have told us many times they
would like to murder cops, it’s not something they whisper, and it’s something
they shout on camera.
When two cops were shot last night in Louisville, BLM’s
Chapter there did not express a word of sympathy for the officers in the
hospital with bullets in them. Instead, BLM Louisville called for the total
abolition of law enforcement. Apparently, the plan is to take out one cop at a
time. Here’s BLM last night in Louisville.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Burn it down. Burn it down. Burn it
down.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Turn that camera off. Turn it off.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: These are violent thugs obviously, many of them,
by the way, have college degrees from expensive universities. But in the end,
they’re all just foot soldiers. There are legions behind them. People you don’t
see on camera. It takes legions. It takes money and it takes organization to
stage effective riots for three and a half months.
So it’s worth asking, who is funding all of this? That is a
central question too few have tried to answer it. We still don’t know the full
answer, but we’re getting a clear picture tonight.
Last night, we showed you footage of a U-Haul truck in
Louisville full of rioting supplies and mobile armor. Watch the mob descend on
that U-Haul within minutes of the grand jury’s verdict.
[VIDEO CLIP PLAYS]
CARLSON: When we showed you that footage last night, we
suggested we had leads as to who might have rented that U-Haul. Tonight we know
who did.
We’ve determined that a woman called Holly Zoller paid for
that U-Haul truck. Zoller works as a so-called bail disruptor. That’s her
description from an organization called The Bail Project. The Bail Project
helps get suspected criminals and rioters back out onto the street as quickly
as they can.
So who funds The Bail Project? It takes money to get people
out of jail. Take a look at that organization’s Board of Directors and it tells
you the story.
There’s a first-term Democratic congresswoman on there, but
other than that, you will not find a more pampered group of revolutionaries.
One Board member is a woman called Lisa Gersh. She previously served as the
President of Strategic Initiatives at NBC and a Managing Director at NBC
Universal. She also was the CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Gersh even
founded her own law firm at one point, not a starving artist.
Another Board member is a man called Michael Novogratz. He
is the CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners and a former principal at Fortress
Investment Group LLC, and the Fortress Macro Fund. He’s a finance guy. He also
serves on the Board of the Princeton Varsity Club.
So what’s going on here? Why are the most privileged people
in our society, rich executives like Gersh and Novogratz supporting an
organization that bails people out of jail who are destroying our cities and attacking
our police? People like that, Board members like this live far from the scenes
of riot. So why are they paying for riots? Maybe they’re doing it to cover
their own tracks. That’s a thought.
America’s core problems are not racial. America’s core problems
are economic. A small group of people have a disproportionate amount of money.
Everyone else is getting poor. For the majority of the population, the American
Dream is dying.
But if you were on the right end of that equation, you
wouldn’t want the public to think too much about this. So maybe you’d fund
racial conflict, so they wouldn’t think about it. It’s pretty clever. It’s also
completely evil.
Last night, we told you about the Hearst Corporation.
That’s a media company that generates more than $11 billion a year. One of
Hearst properties — maybe its most famous property — is Cosmopolitan magazine.
Cosmopolitan magazine spent most of yesterday raising money to bail out rioters
in Louisville.
At one point yesterday, Cosmo tweeted an image of Holly Zoller,
the woman who rented the U-Haul and others along with this message. “Support
protesters who are brave enough to go out and take a stand-in coming days.”
Take a stand? Cosmo wants you to take a stand and send money to people who are
taking a stand.
So what does taking a stand look like? Well, they took a
stand last time in Portland, Oregon. Cosmo readers did. They tried to kill
police officers with Molotov cocktails. Keep in mind, this took place thousands
of miles from Louisville and Breonna Taylor. Why?
[VIDEO CLIP PLAYS]
CARLSON: Just Cosmo readers taking the stand. You’ll notice
that no one in the crowd tries to stop the firebombing. Instead, they hoist
middle fingers at the police. Meanwhile, in Seattle last night, BLM forgot the
gasoline, so they tried to kill a cop with a baseball bat. Watch this.
[VIDEO CLIP PLAYS]
CARLSON: Just to be clear, because this is something else
they’re lying about pretty relentlessly, the people you just saw are not Trump
voters. And that’s not a partisan point designed to help the President’s
re-election campaign. It is true.
Every one of these people is a Democrat or Democrat
adjacent. Why is that relevant? Many reasons. But here’s one, a word from
Kamala Harris might slow these people down. But Harris isn’t interested in
slowing them down. There’s an election to win so the mob rages on.
By the way, you should know that in the name of racial
justice, a BLM supporter shot a black cop in Louisville last night against
racial justice. In Los Angeles, rioters screamed racial epithets at another
black cop. Watch this.
[VIDEO CLIP PLAYS]
CARLSON: Well, if nothing else that shows that real life is
a little bit more complicated than the straightforward black and white race war
the media are always promoting. MSNBC won’t acknowledge that though.
In fact, yesterday, they turned over its airwaves to talking
heads who described the African-American Attorney General of Kentucky, Daniel
Cameron as a race traitor for disagreeing with them. Watch.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOY REID, MSNBC HOST: Don’t look at the fact that this guy
is black. That does not mean anything. He is a Republican through and through.
He spoke at the RNC He told you who he was believing.
CHERYL DORSEY, RETIRED LAPD SERGEANT: He is skin folk, but
he is not kinfolk. And so just like he thinks they can’t speak for Kentucky
because he is up there with a black face, he does not speak for all of us.
ALICIA GARZA, AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST: I think what
I saw this morning was a Bull Connor speech in 2020, and you’re right.
Unfortunately, it was being given by a black prosecutor.
JASON JOHNSON, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: I’m so disgusted by this.
I’m so disgusted by Daniel Cameron’s performance. I am so sick and tired of
black people going on the air and performing for violence and white supremacy
and state-sponsored violence against black people and claiming their mama’s and
claiming they are because they are a black man, they care about it.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Here’s the thought. You shouldn’t put crap like
that on TV. It’s too dishonest. It’s too divisive. It hurts the country too
much. It’s flat-out racist, and it’s wrong.
And the people who run NBC News should be ashamed of that.
They should stop putting that stuff on television. It legitimately hurts the
country.
But that’s the position of the Democratic Party. Remember
when Joe Biden announced that no true black person could vote Republican? Well,
Biden’s allies in the media — and that’s everyone — went a step further. At
MSNBC, they explained that black people are, quote, “performing for white
supremacy,” if they don’t tow the D.N.C.’s line.
At CNN, the anchors want you to know it’s quote
“politically charged” to criticize, quote, “mob violence.” Can you imagine
saying something like that?
Our leaders in Congress and on television and at Cosmo have
decided that law enforcement of any kind is an act of bigotry? Do they really
believe that? Well, of course, they don’t really believe that. That’s why so
many of them are surrounded by armed bodyguards.
But it doesn’t matter what they really believe. In the
short term, in the run-up to this selection, they are getting their way, and
the rest of us will have to live with the consequences of that.
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