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Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com)

Behind the scenes at the White House tech CEO meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook told President Donald Trump that technology employees are "nervous" about the administration's approach to immigration, CNBC reports, citing a source familiar with the exchange. From the report: The source said the president told the CEOs on Monday that the Senate's health-care bill needs "more heart." That would be a second known instance of the president criticizing the GOP plan in private meetings. To that, the source said, Cook replied that the immigration approach by the administration also "needs more heart." Cook cited the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which is under review by the Trump administration. He also said people in tech and their co-workers were nervous about their status, and added that it "would be great" if the president could "send them a signal." Here's what executives of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft said.

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  1. Re:Tech employee here by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Healthcare is a service, provided by people. You might as well say, housing, food, internet, cars, sex and a just about anything.

    Conscripting Healthcare workers, and producers in a government run system is nothing short of slavery, and is morally corrupt.

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    Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.