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Facebook, which has spent millions trying to get massive amnesty legislation that would include huge increases in the number of guest-worker permits that would lower the wages of tech workers, cannot cite any definitive evidence pointing to a shortage of American high-tech workers. 

The fact that a mainstream media outlet questioned the company about those claims may say as much as Facebook's refusal to provide evidence of the so-called shortage. 

A funny thing has happened since tech industry scholars wondered why the the mainstream media were giving the high-tech industry a "free pass" on claims that there is a dire shortage of American high-tech workers. 

Mainstream media outlets like CBS have started to finally examine and question those claims. And now even the pro-business Businessweek is not giving the industry a free pass. 

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