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Posted on 09/19/2017 1:31:31 PM PDT by seacapn
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is in D.C. urging Congress to save DACA
Two weeks after President Donald Trump moved to eliminate a program that protects some young immigrants from deportation, IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty is visiting Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to save it.
As part of a swing through Washington, D.C., this week, Rometty has met with Senate Democrats and Republicans in a bid to get them to preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, from phasing out beginning in March. The initiative, implemented in 2012, had allowed children brought to the United States illegally to obtain waivers so they could continue to live and work in the country.
“We’ve got 31 of these people at IBM,” said Christopher Padilla, the vice president for government and regulatory affairs at IBM, in an interview Tuesday. “They’re in a wide variety of jobs, everything from software development to people in our design lab who do regulatory compliance work.”
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You're thinking to small: not merely end it, but:
following orderswere failing their oaths.
funto be had in enforcing the law. (Where
funis defined as something that would make the advocates/fans of the current system screech.)
It's really funny, because all that would be needed to really kill them would be to enforce the Constitution and come down hard on corruption.
None of that bothers me.
I support prosecutions and the like, that may serve to put the fear of God into future Leftists who seek to do an end run on the U.S. Constitution.
I say that thinking Trump is wrong to voice some support for the DACA people too.
If anyone were to get prosecuted along the lines of what you stated, he would be the one, considering the Leftists we have in country today.
Obama, members of Congress, judges...
Trump has gotten stuck with many bad policies, and he’s just trying to get things back to normal. He’s doing a good job. I’m not going to agree with him on everything.
This may be one of those issues, depending on how it turns out.
I want them gone.
Of course Obama's law by decree overrides an actually passed and signed law by congress. Of course.
January will mark 40 years at IBM. Looking forward to retiring.
DACA = “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals”
Action on these illegals was deferred by the Kenyan sitting in the White House last year.
Now President Trump is un-deferring the action.
What are the odds that she has Mexicans or other Hispanics as house servants and/or yard workers?
I’m not arguing whether what Obama did was legal or not. I’m just stating that they were given work permits....which would make it legal to hire them.
This idiot has driven IBM into the toilet and should have been fired several years ago. IBM is going the way of Kodak under her failed leadership. Yet, she has time to visit DC.
Well that of course, is correct. I'm not venting at you, i'm venting at this system whereby Obama can make laws by decree which override actual laws written by Congress.
He only got away with it because the media covered up for him and nobody had the guts to challenge the first "black" President for doing something stupid or illegal.
Had they treated him as a regular white guy instead of a protected minority, his @$$ would have been in a ringer many times over. What he did would have been called out had a white guy done it.
“We’ve got 31 of these people at IBM,”
Were they hired on a political agenda, or were they persons who absolutely no regular American citizen was ready, available and capable of filling. If they were the later then shame on IBM. If she is going to argue they were the latter example, I’d argue that was B.S. Either way falsehood and failure to be honest reins at IBM.
There as LOTS of hard working, high quality engineers still at IBM.
Many of them have been there for 30 years.
The CEO is not one of those high quality engineers.
“I wouldn’t say San Jose, a place where single family homes typically cost in excess of $750000, is a depressed enclave “
Not now - but in 1955 when IBM was locating there it was a small town in the middle of prune orchards.
And don’t confuse San Jose city today with the more expensive suburbs that have grown up around the Silicon Valley busineses.
How many decades is IBM stuck at $140?
Is she the reason IBM is dying?
I actually worked at the Cottle Road campus for a number of years and am very familiar with the place. The orchards were still there at the south side of the campus when I started but the have since let them die of neglect.
While San Jose is less expensive than Los Gatos, Cupertino and such, it is still extraordinarily expensive and the cost only goes up as you move up the peninsula through Mountain View, Palo Alto and up toward SF. Not a depressed area by any measure and the IBM( later Hitachi and now Western Digital) plant there was an anchor for the south end of the valley.
I quote that excerpt from Wong Kim Ark every time the subject comes up. People usually just ignore it. They simply don’t want to acknowledge something that goes against what they wish to believe.
Could it be "uniform rule of naturalization" is extremely limited by the Constitution. Kind
“Most words ending in -ization are either formed from adding -ation to a word ending in -ize, or borrowed from another language (usually French or Latin).”
Naturalization
Naturalize
Natural born
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