The Senate is close to passing a big increase in employment-related visas, both temporary “H-1B” visas and permanent green cards. Lots of free-marketers, even those who back tough immigration enforcement, think this is just peachy because they’ve been taken in by the tech industry’s lobbying for cheap labor. See a piece in today’s San Francisco Chronicle by Norm Matloff, a computer science professor, exposing the falsehood of tech industry claims. Matloff’s immigration stuff is here, including a piece of his I published earlier this year. For updates on what immigration mischief the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body is up to, visit here.