A good number of those countries are headed by immigrants. They care nothing about this country or its peoples but like all the opportunities the US offers them to exploit it.
On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 12:04:31 PM UTC-6, Perplexed wrote: > > > F*ck every single one of these tech companies. They haven't given a shit > about this country or its people for some time. It's always been about > profits. > > What I find fascinating is that after railing against offshoring jobs for > over a decade, now the loser left is siding with the biggest offenders > wanting to sell off what's left in the way of jobs in America. > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 11:24:45 AM UTC-5, btdt100 wrote: >> >> Wasn't it the NAZIs who buddied up with the government so to get slave >> labor from the concentration camps? >> >> >> Nearly 100 Tech Companies Join Forces In Court To Oppose Donald Trump's >> Immigration Ban >> >> >> >> *http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/02/06/nearly-100-tech-companies-join-forces-to-oppose-donald-trumps-immigration-ban/#50f6910c124b >> >> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/02/06/nearly-100-tech-companies-join-forces-to-oppose-donald-trumps-immigration-ban/#50f6910c124b>* >> >> >> *UPDATE: Feb. 6, 5:55 pm. Tesla Inc. and SpaceX were among 31 companies >> added to the brief late Monday afternoon. Elon Musk, CEO of both Tesla and >> SpaceX, is the last remaining technology executive on Trump's business >> council.* >> >> The biggest names in Silicon Valley lined up over the weekend to support >> a high-profile legal battle against President Donald Trump's recent >> executive orders banning immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries. >> Having already publicly denounced Trump's orders >> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/02/03/silicon-valley-giants-joins-forces-again-to-oppose-donald-trumps-immigration-orders/#56ca2ad794f5>, >> >> which were temporarily blocked last week by a federal judge, leaders in the >> technology industry joined a friend of the court brief opposing the ban. >> >> Trump's orders represent "a significant departure from the principles of >> fairness >> and predictability that have governed the immigration system of the United >> States for more than fifty years," reads the amicus brief, written by >> Andrew Pincus of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Mayer Brown LLP. "The >> Order makes it more difficult and expensive for U.S. companies to >> recruit, hire, and retain some of the world’s best employees. It >> disrupts ongoing business operations. And it threatens companies’ >> ability to attract talent, business, and investment to the United States." >> >> The amicus brief, filed in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San >> Francisco late Sunday, is in support of a lawsuit against Trump's >> immigration orders by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. >> Seattle-based Amazon had previously filed a declaration of support >> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2017/01/30/amazons-jeff-bezos-issues-strong-statement-opposing-trumps-immigration-order/#781dcb47284e> >> in >> the case, and as a result was not on the list of firms who joined the >> friend of the court brief. Notably absent as well were Oracle, Palantir >> (co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel), Qualcomm and IBM. In a statement to >> FORBES, a spokesperson for IBM said its CEO, Ginni Rometty, "conveyed >> the company's views directly" to Trump at an in-person meeting last week. >> That >> meeting >> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2017/02/05/brash-elon-musk-tweets-a-moderate-course-as-he-adapts-to-trump-era-challenges/#2f3df514f01e>, >> >> also attended by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, was originally to include >> other Silicon Valley leaders who pulled out after intense public backlash >> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2017/02/02/uber-ceo-quits-trump-advisory-council-after-deleteuber/#468b7ba111e0> >> against >> the immigration orders. >> >> The last time tech companies joined forces on this scale was nearly a >> year ago, when dozens of firms signed friend of the court briefs in >> support of Apple >> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/03/03/silicon-valley-backs-apple-in-fight-with-fbi/#411a035d2521> >> in >> the smartphone maker's encryption battle with the federal government. At >> the time, the unifying thread for companies was a shared resistance to >> government-imposed orders on software security built into devices. Now, >> it's the widely-held belief in Silicon Valley that immigrants have and >> continue to be a driving force in the American economy - or at least, for >> the Valley's own bottom line. >> Recommended by Forbes"Immigrants are leading entrepreneurs," Sunday's >> brief reads. "Some of these businesses are large. Immigrants or their >> children founded more than 200 of the companies on the Fortune 500 list >> ... Collectively, these companies generate annual revenue of $4.2 >> trillion, and employ millions of Americans." >> >> It's unclear exactly how the brief came together over the weekend, and >> which technology trade organizations, if any, were involved. Pincus >> declined to comment beyond the order Monday morning. >> >> Many of the same companies who signed the brief are still expected to >> send a public letter to Trump's administration >> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/02/03/silicon-valley-giants-joins-forces-again-to-oppose-donald-trumps-immigration-orders/#329c71fe94f5> >> regarding >> the ban. >> >> >> Here is a complete list of the companies who signed the order, in >> alphabetical order: >> >> 1. AdRoll, Inc. 2. Aeris Communications, Inc. 3. Airbnb, Inc. 4. >> AltSchool, PBC 5. Ancestry.com, LLC 6. Appboy, Inc. 7. Apple Inc. 8. >> AppNexus Inc. 9. Asana, Inc. 10. Atlassian Corp Plc 11. Autodesk, Inc. 12. >> Automattic Inc. 13. Box, Inc. 14. Brightcove Inc. 15. Brit + Co 16. >> CareZone Inc. 17. Castlight Health 18. Checkr, Inc. >> >> 19. Chobani, LLC 20. Citrix Systems, Inc. 21. Cloudera, Inc. 22. >> Cloudflare, Inc. 23. Copia Institute 24. DocuSign, Inc. 25. DoorDash, Inc. >> 26. Dropbox, Inc. 27. Dynatrace LLC 28. eBay Inc. 29. Engine Advocacy 30. >> Etsy Inc. 31. Facebook, Inc. 32. Fastly, Inc. 33. Flipboard, Inc. 34. >> Foursquare Labs, Inc. 35. Fuze, Inc. 36. General Assembly 37. GitHub 38. >> Glassdoor, Inc. 39. Google Inc. 40. GoPro, Inc. 41. Harmonic Inc. 42. >> Hipmunk, >> Inc. 43. Indiegogo, Inc.44. Intel Corporation 45. JAND, Inc. d/b/a Warby >> Parker 46. Kargo Global, Inc.47. Kickstarter, PBC 48. KIND, LLC 49. >> Knotel 50. Levi Strauss & Co. 51. LinkedIn Corporation 52. Lithium >> Technologies, Inc. 53. Lyft, Inc. 54. Mapbox, Inc. 55. Maplebear Inc. >> d/b/a Instacart 56. Marin Software Incorporated 57. Medallia, Inc. 58. A >> Medium Corporation 59. Meetup, Inc. 60. Microsoft Corporation 61. Motivate >> International Inc. 62. Mozilla Corporation 63. Netflix, Inc. 64. NETGEAR, >> Inc. 65. NewsCred, Inc. 66. Patreon, Inc. 67. PayPal Holdings, Inc. 68. >> Pinterest, >> Inc. 69. Quora, Inc. 70. Reddit, Inc. 71. Rocket Fuel Inc. 72. SaaStr >> Inc. 73. Salesforce.com, Inc. 74. Scopely, Inc. 75. Shutterstock, Inc. >> 76. Snap Inc. 77. Spokeo, Inc. 78. Spotify USA Inc. 79. Square, Inc. >> 80. Squarespace, Inc. 81. Strava, Inc. 82. Stripe, Inc. 83. SurveyMonkey >> Inc. 84. TaskRabbit, Inc 85. Tech:NYC 86. Thumbtack, Inc. 87. Turn Inc. >> 88. Twilio Inc. 89. Twitter Inc. 90. Turn Inc. 91. Uber Technologies, Inc. >> 92. Via 93. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 94. Workday 95. Y Combinator >> Management, LLC 96. Yelp Inc. 97. Zynga Inc. >> >> Added later Monday: >> >> 97. Adobe Systems Incorporated 98. Affirm, Inc. 99. Ampush LLC 100. >> Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 101. Bungie, Inc. 102. Casper Sleep >> Inc. 103. Cavium, Inc. 104. Chegg, Inc. 105. ClassPass Inc. 106. Coursera >> 107. EquityZen Inc. 108. Evernote 109. Gusto 110. Handy Technologies, Inc. >> 111. HP Inc. 112. IAC/InterActiveCorp 113. Linden Lab 114. Managed By Q >> Inc. 115. MobileIron 116. New Relic, Inc. 117. Pandora Media, Inc. 118. >> Planet Labs Inc. 119. RPX Corporation 120. Shift Technologies, Inc. 121. >> Slack Technologies, Inc. 122. SpaceX 123. Tesla, Inc. 124. TripAdvisor, >> Inc. 125. Udacity, Inc. 126. Zendesk, Inc. 127. Zenefits >> > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
