Posted on 04/24/2015 8:36:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Like most technology people, The Tech Guys are pro-immigration. We published several pro-growth pro-immigration op-eds during the 2012 cycle. Many Daily Caller readers don’t agree with Tech Guys on immigration policy. But the politics of not demonizing legal immigrants while running for POTUS are pretty obvious. Since Walker needs tips on the basics of a national campaign, we also recommend Walker not opine on the legitimacy of rape or compare homosexuality to bestiality.
Scott Walker claimed the early lead in the “self-deportation” GOP presidential primary sweepstakes. Walker called for a reduction in legal immigration. This is bad for America, contrary to American values, and harmful to GDP, jobs, and tax revenue — in Silicon Valley and throughout the country. Legal immigrants and illegal immigrants add economic and cultural value to this country in all sectors, not just technology. For one example, Walker can look above his name in recent polls to the son of a hotel bartender and a hotel housekeeper.
Walker is not impressed with immigrant-founded businesses like Google, AT&T, and midwestern neighbor Procter & Gamble. Perhaps he would like to deport Kohl’s, the third largest company in Wisconsin, back to Poland?
According to the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, immigrants started 28 percent of all new U.S. businesses in 2011, employing one in ten U.S. workers. What exactly would happen to those jobs if we clamped down on those companies’ ability to operate?
It is also offensive to the legal immigrants of his home state in Wisconsin. What exactly should they do since their governor is running for president on a platform to reduce their right to work? Self-deport?
We also note Governor Walker’s message to immigrant students in the Wisconsin public university system: take your diploma and go home. Don’t build your Google’s here. Americans have grown accustomed to GOP Governors, such as Rick Perry, competing to attract jobs and job creators to their states, not to intentionally drive them away.
Even Mitt Romney, who self-deported himself out of a winnable 2012 election said, “If someone comes here and gets a PhD in physics, that’s the person I’d like to staple a green card to their diploma, rather than saying to them to go home.”
University of Wisconsin — Madison’s PhD graduation is May 15, 2015. We recommend Governor Walker attend and staple a plane ticket to the diplomas.
Before a President Walker can harm American job creation and legal immigrants as president, he would need to prevail in a general election. Mitt Romney recorded 27 percent of the Latino vote in his 2012 loss, a 17 percent free fall from President Bush’s 44 percent Latino vote count in his 2004 win. Good luck in 2016, candidate Walker.
Walker appears to feel that Romney’s call for self-deportation wasn’t effective enough in driving away Latino voters. After all, Romney still collected 27 percent. Maybe Walker is making a play for 0 percent of the growing Latino & Asian-American vote? Perhaps Walker plans to erect Joe Kennedy Senior’s get-out-the-vote machine and harvest 150 percent of the white vote?
Walker apparently feels the 2012 anti-immigration GOP circular firing squad didn’t go far enough. After all, the anti-immigration rhetoric from Romney, Cain, and Santorum aimed at restricting illegal immigration, with touchy feely approaches like electric fences. That’s not enough for Walker. He wants to restrict legal immigration, something even anti-immigration hawks like Senator Cruz want to increase.
In Governor Walker’s own recent words (underline is from Tech Guys):
>>>“In terms of legal immigration, how we need to approach that going forward is saying – the next president and the next Congress need to make decisions about a legal immigration system that’s based on, first and foremost, on protecting American workers and American wages… It is a fundamentally lost issue by many in elected positions today – what is this doing for American workers looking for jobs, what is this doing to wages, and we need to have that be at the forefront of our discussion going forward.”<<<
Like most technology people, The Tech Guys are pro-immigration. We published several pro-growth pro-immigration op-eds during the 2012 cycle. Many Daily Caller readers don’t agree with Tech Guys on immigration policy. But the politics of not demonizing legal immigrants while running for POTUS are pretty obvious. Since Walker needs tips on the basics of a national campaign, we also recommend Walker not opine on the legitimacy of rape or compare homosexuality to bestiality.
The timing of Walker’s self-deportation from the general election is curious. Walker and Rubio had spent April 2015 surpassing Jeb Bush as the most plausible nominees. Why did Walker self-deport now? Maybe, like Gary Hart and Howard Dean before him, he doesn’t really want the nomination? Or like Mitt Romney in 2012, he wants the nomination but doesn’t want the Presidency? Regardless, the Tech Guys recommend Walker heed the wise words of Bill Ray Valentine and get… out.
When immigrants came to the United States before the creation of the welfare state, they came here with the attitude that they were either going to work their butts off and make a new life for themselves, or they were going to starve.
Today a large number of “immigrants are coming here with the idea that they are going to get all kinds of free benefits paid for by the American taxpayers and if they are successful, they will never have to work a day in their lives. Free food, free education, free housing. None of this was available 100 years ago when we had “open borders”.
As long as we have a liberal welfare state, it is imperative that nobody be allowed to come to this country that will be a burden on the taxpayers.
If they want to see a large migration of immigrants return to their “own country” (that’s the term they use) then all we need to do is to clamp down on birthright citizenship and welfare for people who are not citizens.
But that will never happen. Not with the present Congress or the current crop of politicians. I don’t really see an end to this unless and until the government eventually runs out of other people’s money. When that happens, there will be blood in the streets.
I remember in the 1970’s when the liberals were all decrying the growth in population of the United States. Now these same lefties are calling for millions of new immigrants to come here every year. What happened to all the population control liberals?
As usual the press gets it exactly wrong ( or purposely pretends to get it wrong)
Romney did not lose votes because of his “self deportation” comments, he lost them because NO ONE BELIEVED HIM!
Every knew Romney was a RINO who WANTS more illegals here, and that he was LYING about his real views on the issue to appear to be more conservative that he really was to win the GOP nomination.
But he didn’t fool anyone. We have all seen this game played enough to know how it goes. Run to the right during the primary and back to the middle as soon as you secure the nomination!
They've moved on to "Climate Change/Climate Disruption/Man-made Global Warming."
BUT it's the same con and the same con-men, like the Sixties [Population Bomb] collaborators [50 years of policy making much of it together] Paul Ehrlich, Stanford and John P. Holdren (Obama's long standing Science and Technology Adviser).
Actually, Walker just came out the other day against “legal immigration” ...
The media is:
Lazy
Ignorant
Lying
I don’t know any techies who want huge numbers of H1b visas handed out. I’ve heard of a few tech company owners who do, but they want to undercut the big salaries these guys command. And they should. They absorb pages upon pages of diagrams, numbers, binary operations, etc.
It is a field for only a very smart, hard-working person.
Our boston bomber recently convicted was sucking with a family a 100 grand out of the welfare state. He wasn’t memorizing thousands of pages of information.
The bomber is the typical immigrant. Next, are the Indian and Pakistan ‘educated’ supposedly capable replacements. They aren’t capable in either the business or in the English language, a fact we know too well.
So, what is the real game here? What is MicroSoft et al really trying to accomplish in the replacement of their workers with immigrants that don’t really fit the need?
Culture change is one possibility, but what would make someone injure their own business? This one is odd.
They froze to death during the 1970s Ice Age while reading “The Population Bomb”
Whoa...similar to what I just posted :-)
Then it’s true.
Lol!
: )
The IT visa program effectively froze most IT salaries at 1990’s levels while allowing less technical executive field to keep increasing their salaries year after year.
It was the retaliation of the non nerds.
What a pile of steaming crap!
Almost every foreign STEM Ph.D in America is eligible for some kind of extended work visa or student visa, usually up to six years.
Almost 80% of the STEM Ph.D's from India, China, Russia, Iran, and eastern Europe are still in the USA six years after graduation.
Unfortunately, almost all of them are completely “average” Ph.D's who graduated from second tier universities.
They want Green Cards, and they will take any job, no matter how bad the pay is.
The truly elite foreign STEM Ph.D's, who graduate from elite universities, almost all come from western Europe, Japan, the oil rich Middle East, and the English speaking countries.
Almost none of them stay in the USA.
Why?
Simple - the pay scale and the standard of living in their home countries is equal to or higher than the USA.
I felt the same way about Romney in 2012.
Eighteen months later, before the 2014 midterm, Romney was supporting the Gang of Eight Amnesty and publicly criticizing immigration Conservatives.
The GOP leadership has lied to me so often, and so brazenly, about immigration, about ObamaCare, about debt and spending, I no longer believe ANYTHING they say about ANY political issue.
I knew Romney was lying.
I have suspicions about Walker.
Bull$hit! Maybe in San Fran Bay or Seattle, but us Alabama tech guys don't like people who break the law. Legal immigrants are fine but the illegals screw over those patiently waiting with their law breaking...
Shut up, tech girls.
It’s not the foreign-born PhDs I’m having a problem with, it’s the ones who are sucking away all my tax dollars through all the government assistance programs.
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