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.
A fine couple of peanut brains.
It’s amazing.
A fine couple of peanut brains.”””
These peanut brains will be out-voted by millions of Americans who are tired of seeing illegals at every turn & being taxed more & more & more to support all of them.
Please, Walker and Cruz....contact some FR Engineers and Scientists and we will help you debunk these lies.
No one I know in Silicon Valley supports H1b other than people here on H1b or those who gain promotions from H1b.
Silicon Valley is all about Power and Money.
It wasn’t always this way but it is now.
Just goes to show you that when a Republican hits the nail on the head the Left goes ape and loses all capability of rational thought.
If you’re taking flak.....etc.
I wish the Tech Guys would deport themselves to Syria.
Illegal immigration COSTS America in many more ways than it benefits. It suppresses wages, burdens schools, increases the burden on social services and costs many more billions in tax dollars than they will ever contribute.
Well, if the minions of The Cheap Labor Express are attacking Walker, maybe he’s for real with his new stance on the cheap labor importation/invasion that they like to confuse with immigration.
I hope he stays strong with the citizens and the rule of law. We’ve seen enough weasels like Rubio tell us one thing to get elected and then stab us in the back once in office.
This is where the Left has a lead on us. They have managed to frame this discussion as "demonizing legal immigrants." It's not about that. It's about admitting foreign nationals into our country in a controlled, prescribed, LEGAL manner, so as to eliminate the undesirables and protect the citizens who already live here. And it's about deporting those who, by their very presence here, have scoffed at our laws and therefore are criminals.
Those are legitimate functions -- indeed OBLIGATIONS -- of government.
There's nothing "demonizing" about insisting visitors to this country follow our laws.
“Carles Curran and Patrick Ennis have spent over 35 combined years as technology investors and innovators. We live in Boston and Washington State, respectively.”
You place way too much faith in your fellow voters.
I thought tech people could do logic.
Actually peanuts serve a useful purpose, unlike this pair of dodos (do dodos serve any useful purpose?)
Charles Curran and Patrick Ennis have spent over 35 combined years as technology investors and innovators. We live in Boston and Washington State, respectively.
Oooh, over 35 years combined, that means they’re what 10 years out of mom’s basement and probably got in on the ground floor of Segway and the Windows Phone.
If only we had given Admiral Yamamoto a green card instead of sending him back to Japan after he graduated from Harvard, we might have won WWII
Oh wait, we did win that war. Never mind.
Alternatively, he could have started many years ago developing a solid understanding of Constitutional conservative principles, such that "talking points" would not be necessary.
Their religion is wealth; their loyalty is to a new world order where borders and citizenship are outmoded.
50 million immigrants in the past decade, and those starting Google or earning PhDs are presented as representative? I approve of legal immigration when the immigrants are selected based on their ability to contribute to our country. I disapprove of immigration when the immigrants have no special skills and their best qualification is being second cousin to welfare recipients who already immigrated. As for criminals who enter illegally or overstay a visa, I think they should be fingerprinted, DNA swabbed, deported, banned from any legal reentry ever, and banned from all paths to citizenship. There is a middle ground between unrestricted legal and illegal immigration or zero immigration.
Perhaps Walker failed to articulate that middle ground clearly enough for these shockingly biased advocates of "Legal immigrants and illegal immigrants add economic and cultural value to this country in all sectors", but Walker did say it. Their only reason for editing his comments to mean something different is to lie. These people are liberals, and they are enemies of the state, trying to harm America for their personal profit. Liberals like that (which is most liberals) disgust me.
A LOT of illegals are those who "overstay" their student and travel visas - they didn't walk across the border. Then there ARE those who flood across the border for work, social benefits and because the feds won't stop them (heck they're flying them here on our dime). Nothing wrong with legal immigration for those we truly need, or who follow the rules on the books.
A clear majority of Americans can out vote nincompoops like these foul mouthed OpEd writers.
So our Tech Billionaire’s want open border’s. Just as long as they have private jets, security guards, large gated estates and cheap help.
They should each have to take in 10 illegals for every bedroom they own..
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