Trump's foes on immigration: corporations

CNN ^ | 2/7/17 | Chris Isidore

[ek_hornbeck]

Dozens of companies worked together to file court papers. Others used Super Bowl ads to promote messages of inclusion and tolerance to 111 million viewers. Starbucks promised to hire 10,000 refugees.

Opposition to President Trump's immigration order isn't just coming from Democrats or judges. It's coming from corporate America.

The companies are concerned about access to skilled foreign workers and foreign markets. But corporate opposition to the order goes further, in some cases calling it unconstitutional or suggesting it conflicts with American values.

[ek_hornbeck]

There are two different motivating issues at work here.

The Presidents and CEO's of some companies, notably Facebook and Starbucks, are left-wing ideologues on social and cultural issues, so they'd be pushing the agenda of open borders even if the bottom line wasn't at stake.

The other corporations opposing President Trump's immigration initiatives aren't motivated by multicultural ideology so much as by their need for cheap foreign labor, be it through mass immigration or through outsourcing. Unfortunately, their lobbyists have the ear of many in the Republican Party, who have short-sightedly allowed immediate financial interests to take precedence over the broader national interest.

[DesertRhino]

“Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen”

Yeah, the tech industry is going to be hit hard. If “tech industry” refers to the bronze age that is.

[grania]

Our side has to be more savvy. We let the maniacs frame the discussion, thus masking their real agenda....unabated cheap labor.

[DesertRhino]

The companies are concerned about access to skilled foreign workers and foreign markets.

iran,
iraq,
libya,
somalia,
sudan,
Syria,
yemen

Yeah....sure. Skilled workers and foreign markets. LOL

[pfflier]

All I have to do is look at the graffiti on the fences to know where action is required. I don’t need an “All American” beer company owned by people in Belgium to be my moral compass on the issue of immigration.

[Steve_Seattle]

Hey, CNN, remember when prominent DEMOCRATIC mayors (Seattle, Chicago, Boston), along with the DEMOCRATIC governor of New York, said that CHRISTIANS weren’t welcome in their jurisdictions? Remember how they regretted that the law wouldn’t allow them to ban businesses on the basis of the Christian religious beliefs of the owners? (I am talking about, of course, Chick-Fil-E, on one hand, and Christians in general, on the other, with regard to the issues of abortion and gay marriage).

[indthkr]

H1B bump for later....

[central_va]

Corporation want to run the country and they continuously buy off politicians to do it. It is apparent that Corporations HATE "the republic for which it stands" and citizen/states rights.

If a repeal the 17th amendment movement really took off Corporations would be leading the fight against it. They don't want to have to bribe 50 different legislatures. They want one stop shopping for all of their corrupt globalist needs.

[plain talk]

Our side has to be more savvy. We let the maniacs frame the discussion, thus masking their real agenda....unabated cheap labor.

Nah. The real agenda is one world communism.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I don’t need an “All American” beer company owned by people in Belgium to be my moral compass on the issue of immigration."

Or the NCAA and NFL to be our moral compass on transgender bathrooms or BLM.

[SharpRightTurn]

I hope Attorney General Sessions sends in agents to each of these corporations and, if they are employing illegals, fine them to the full extent of the law, and if they have broken any penal law throw some of the corporate officers behind bars. Also, let them know they will be periodically monitored to ensure compliance with our immigration and employment laws.

[Steve_Seattle]

"We let the maniacs frame the discussion, thus masking their real agenda....unabated cheap labor."

I've been using a similar argument for the past few months, i.e., "The proponents of illegal immigration like the idea of a large pool of cheap labor provided by people of color. Does that suggest any historical parallels?"

[Degaston]

Notice how many of these same companies are pretty much a who’s who on the biggest “legal” IRS tax cheats in the world. The USA federal corporate tax rate is 35% for large companies. But these guys play accounting games to cheat out the IRS and the American people. The accounting games they play are made possible thanks to our international trade deals and their lobbying efforts to change the tax rules so they could cheat legally.

[Original Lurker]

Crony capitalists have been at war with US citizens
(overtly/covertly, varying degrees) for many generations.

It’s taking place now during the information age.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Corporations are really the ones who benefit from Food Stamps too.

Not all criticism of corporations is left-wing kookery.

[ek_hornbeck]

It's a symbolic gesture. Obviously most of these companies have no significant business interests in those countries nor do they get workers from these countries. However, many corporations are so committed to open borders that they see any restriction on who can enter the country as something that has to be fought tooth and nail.

Their thought is that if today we stop refugees from Somalia and Syria, tomorrow we won't be allowing migrant farm laborers (and their families) from Mexico and Central America en masse, or H1B visa IT guys from China and India.

[Fhios]

Funny that we’ve been told that conservatives are for big business interests when it turns out to be liberals.

[Vendome]

Those ads were for the employees to give them a sense the company cares deeply about a social issue.

They don’t

[ek_hornbeck]

Not all criticism of corporations is left-wing kookery.

You and I get this. So do most commenting on this thread. Unfortunately, some conservatives have a knee-jerk reaction that dismisses all criticism of corporate interests as "left-wing socialism" even when corporations benefit from Federal subsidies, taxpayer sponsored bail-outs, or from the immigration policies championed by the Left.

[DesertRhino]

You say obviously. They freaked out when the list of backward nations was given a temporary hold. And I saw the leaders of those companies explaining how this would cripple the tech industry.