The United States has nearly doubled the annual quota of temporary work visas it grants to foreign professionals--to 195, 000, from 115, 000.

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Details of how exactly the discards ban will work in practice with the quota system or its projected replacement will be debated later.

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On the margin there will be geographic areas where native population wants more immigrants to come live and work there than the nationally set immigration quota would provide.

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But the European Commission believes a quota on foreign players would be incompatible with EU law as it amounts to discrimination at work and a restriction on the free movement of workers.

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