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Chinese nationals held in Brazil for forged U.S. passports RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil,

Nov. 23 Kyodo - The Brazilian federal police have arrested three Chinese nationals who were about to catch a plane to Miami using forged U.S.

passports, police authorities said Friday.

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At a time when hundreds of thousands of Americans are out of work, many employers are rubbing salt in the wound by hiring foreign workers," said Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington group critical of the H-1B visa program.

The record applications for foreign workers--the majority of whom take jobs in the high tech industry--comes more than a year after Silicon Valley mounted a multimillion dollar lobbying effort to convince Congress to expand the program to satisfy skyrocketing demand for highly skilled workers.