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There are two different motivating issues at work here.

The Presidents and CEO's of some companies, notably Facebook and Starbucks, are left-wing ideologues on social and cultural issues, so they'd be pushing the agenda of open borders even if the bottom line wasn't at stake.

The other corporations opposing President Trump's immigration initiatives aren't motivated by multicultural ideology so much as by their need for cheap foreign labor, be it through mass immigration or through outsourcing. Unfortunately, their lobbyists have the ear of many in the Republican Party, who have short-sightedly allowed immediate financial interests to take precedence over the broader national interest.

1 posted on 02/07/2017 1:07:15 PM PST by ek_hornbeck
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“Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen”

Yeah, the tech industry is going to be hit hard. If “tech industry” refers to the bronze age that is.


2 posted on 02/07/2017 1:10:31 PM PST by DesertRhino (.)
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Our side has to be more savvy. We let the maniacs frame the discussion, thus masking their real agenda....unabated cheap labor.


3 posted on 02/07/2017 1:11:30 PM PST by grania
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The companies are concerned about access to skilled foreign workers and foreign markets.

iran,
iraq,
libya,
somalia,
sudan,
Syria,
yemen

Yeah....sure. Skilled workers and foreign markets. LOL


4 posted on 02/07/2017 1:12:38 PM PST by DesertRhino (.)
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All I have to do is look at the graffiti on the fences to know where action is required. I don’t need an “All American” beer company owned by people in Belgium to be my moral compass on the issue of immigration.


5 posted on 02/07/2017 1:13:09 PM PST by pfflier
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Hey, CNN, remember when prominent DEMOCRATIC mayors (Seattle, Chicago, Boston), along with the DEMOCRATIC governor of New York, said that CHRISTIANS weren’t welcome in their jurisdictions? Remember how they regretted that the law wouldn’t allow them to ban businesses on the basis of the Christian religious beliefs of the owners? (I am talking about, of course, Chick-Fil-E, on one hand, and Christians in general, on the other, with regard to the issues of abortion and gay marriage).


6 posted on 02/07/2017 1:13:53 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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H1B bump for later....


7 posted on 02/07/2017 1:14:16 PM PST by indthkr
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Corporation want to run the country and they continuously buy off politicians to do it. It is apparent that Corporations HATE "the republic for which it stands" and citizen/states rights.

If a repeal the 17th amendment movement really took off Corporations would be leading the fight against it. They don't want to have to bribe 50 different legislatures. They want one stop shopping for all of their corrupt globalist needs.

8 posted on 02/07/2017 1:14:27 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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I hope Attorney General Sessions sends in agents to each of these corporations and, if they are employing illegals, fine them to the full extent of the law, and if they have broken any penal law throw some of the corporate officers behind bars. Also, let them know they will be periodically monitored to ensure compliance with our immigration and employment laws.


11 posted on 02/07/2017 1:15:36 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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Notice how many of these same companies are pretty much a who’s who on the biggest “legal” IRS tax cheats in the world. The USA federal corporate tax rate is 35% for large companies. But these guys play accounting games to cheat out the IRS and the American people. The accounting games they play are made possible thanks to our international trade deals and their lobbying efforts to change the tax rules so they could cheat legally.


13 posted on 02/07/2017 1:17:46 PM PST by Degaston
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Crony capitalists have been at war with US citizens
(overtly/covertly, varying degrees) for many generations.

It’s taking place now during the information age.


14 posted on 02/07/2017 1:18:01 PM PST by Original Lurker
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Corporations are really the ones who benefit from Food Stamps too.

Not all criticism of corporations is left-wing kookery.


15 posted on 02/07/2017 1:21:43 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Funny that we’ve been told that conservatives are for big business interests when it turns out to be liberals.


17 posted on 02/07/2017 1:23:40 PM PST by Fhios
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Those ads were for the employees to give them a sense the company cares deeply about a social issue.

They don’t


18 posted on 02/07/2017 1:24:00 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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AKA the cheap labor express.


25 posted on 02/07/2017 1:30:28 PM PST by Parley Baer
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They want cheap labor.


27 posted on 02/07/2017 1:38:38 PM PST by ZULU (Particular circumstances can never be used to justify an act that is intrinsically evil.)
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They want cheap labor.


28 posted on 02/07/2017 1:38:42 PM PST by ZULU (Particular circumstances can never be used to justify an act that is intrinsically evil.)
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And after we lowered their taxes continuously over the past 30 years?!?!? We need to raise them and oppose the entire corporate program until they get their s__t straight.
29 posted on 02/07/2017 1:39:24 PM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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The Cheap Labor Express has wanted the loosest immigration enforcement possible since the last amnesty.
They don’t care about the country.


30 posted on 02/07/2017 1:44:19 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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It’s all about the money. That “Statue of Liberty” nonsense is just greedy liberal bull****.


31 posted on 02/07/2017 1:44:49 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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Nothing prevents these companies from Opening up Shops in these Countries, then they can get the cheap labor.

Google in Yemen would be a great Headline!


32 posted on 02/07/2017 1:45:40 PM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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