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Tech Companies To Lobby For Immigrant 'Dreamers' To Remain In US (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nearly two dozen major companies in technology and other industries are planning to launch a coalition to demand legislation that would allow young, illegal immigrants a path to permanent residency, according to documents seen by Reuters. The Coalition for the American Dream intends to ask Congress to pass bipartisan legislation this year that would allow these immigrants, often referred to as "Dreamers," to continue working in the United States, the documents said. Alphabet Inc's Google, Microsoft Corp, Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc, Intel Corp, Uber Technologies Inc, IBM Corp, Marriott International Inc and other top U.S. companies are listed as members, one of the documents shows. The push for this legislation comes after President Donald Trump's September decision to allow the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to expire in March. That program, established by former President Barack Obama in 2012, allows approximately 900,000 illegal immigrants to obtain work permits. Some 800 companies signed a letter to Congressional leaders after Trump's decision, calling for legislation protecting Dreamers. That effort was spearheaded by a pro-immigration reform group Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg co-founded in 2013 called FWD.us.
âoeDreamersâ , what a stupid name. Deport their sorry asses and let them complain to their criminal parents for dragging them to US.
Using that logic, shouldn't almost every American get his sorry ass out of the country? We are all illegal. We stole this country from the people that lived here.
When it comes to Trump and a great many of his voters, well, they are just happy they finally found who to blame, since it could never in any small part be themselves. I grow to hate every one of them and their weaselly excuses on why Trump was a good idea. I just talked with one yesterday. He was an intelligent guy, and he told me, as if it was obvious, that all politicians lie, as if the way Trump acts is in no way exceptionally bad and far above all others in the scope of lying, as if the fact that many politicians told some lies justifies Trump telling exponentially more. It doesn't.
In the end it is all the same. Obama made it. Trump broke it. Trump blamed it someone else, then told people to fix it. Even now they are about to give the really rich a massive boost in income, the rest of us a tiny bit, and toss us massively more into debt.
Seriously, just months ago they were blaming Obama for inflating the deficit, when much of that was originated in the bush tax cuts that Obama didn't manage to get rid of, and now we are going to double down because why again?
I just can't see why any rational person would believe in this bullshit, nor why we have to hate on kids.
Using that logic, shouldn't almost every American get his sorry ass out of the country?
I think the difference between dreamers and most americans is that dreamers were born outside of the country and brought illegally into the country as children. Most americans on the other hand, which includes most immigrant kids, both those of legal and illegal parents, were born in the U.S so they've been legal since birth thanks to everyone born in the U.S being granted citizenship upon birth. This is actually something unique to the americas as everywhere else in the world at least one of the parents to be a citizen for a child born there to be granted citizenship.
Don't get me wrong, I'm most definitely not a fan of Trump or most of his followers, but this is one of those (few) cases where something he does actually makes at least some amount of sense. If congress can't pass a more permanent solution in time Trump killing the U.S Dream Act obviously runs a serious risk of causing a lot of people a lot of grief due to circumstances outside of their control. However there's also the rule of law question as the law was in some sense a form of immigration amnesty to people who broke the immigration laws.
Once again, don't get me wrong. I sympathise with dreamers, but at the same time I can understand why people want them deported in the first place. If I had to chose a solution to this problem, which has existed for decades and never been properly solved, I'd implement something similar to the Dream Act except with proper citizenship waiting for them at the end being on the straight and narrow for a few years.
"Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."
Because they're here already, have already made lives for themselves, are already integrated into society, and have done nothing wrong, and because sending them back to a country they barely know if at all would be horrifically cruel.
Also there's no line. Letting 100,000 Dreamers stay here does not prevent others from coming in or delay their entrance. Quite the reverse actually: if the authorities are tied up deporting people, they have fewer resources to manage normal immigration.
BTW I am a legal immigrant.
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