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I think this is justified and expected. What proportion of Uber drivers are themselves first generation immigrants? In New York City anyway, it seems like > 90%

I think this is justified and expected. What proportion of Uber drivers are themselves first generation immigrants? In New York City anyway, it seems like > 90% of them are. It seems untenable for the CEO of Uber to participate in a regime so with such a revanchist anti-immigration policy. Maybe Kalanick thought he could counterbalance that tendency, but he won't be able to do it. The anti-immigration fanaticism is the driving force behind Trumpism.

loafa 10y ago
Trump is in no way anti-immigration.
devereaux 10y ago
There is immigration, and illegal immigration. Trump has given no sign of being against the former.
- disantlor 10y ago
  Except of course for the executive order debacle which accomplished nothing and blocked permanent residents from returning home, etc etc.
- emmett 10y ago
  Trump's senior strategist, his appointee to the Security Council and political advisor is Steve Bannon. “Isn’t the beating heart of this problem, the real beating heart of it, of what we gotta get sorted here, not illegal immigration?” Bannon asked Miller. “As horrific as that is, and it’s horrific, don’t we have a problem? We’ve looked the other way on this legal immigration that’s kinda overwhelmed the country?” Bannon goes on to decry the “oligarchs” of Silicon Valley and Washington and call the number of immigrants in the United States “scary.” It's very hard to say Trump's given "no sign" of being against legal immigration. He has yet to actually put forward an anti-legal immigration Bill in the first two weeks of his presidency, but it seems likely he will given his choice of advisors.
- nerfhammer 10y ago
  He campaigned on banning Muslims and signed an executive order partially to that effect the other day.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > There is immigration, and illegal immigration. > Trump has given no sign of being against the former. Except the current E.O., which affects currently legal immigrants, and a draft the administration has circulated which targets many more currently legal immigrants [0], and restrictions on currently-legal immigration that go beyond either of those that he called for on the campaign trail. [0] http://wapo.st/2kOhRNp?tid http://wapo.st/2kOhRNp?tid
- metaphorm 10y ago
  Trump has actively insinuated that he supports a nativist (i.e. white nationalist) immigration policy.

loafa 10y ago

Trump is in no way anti-immigration.

devereaux 10y ago

There is immigration, and illegal immigration. Trump has given no sign of being against the former.

disantlor 10y ago
Except of course for the executive order debacle which accomplished nothing and blocked permanent residents from returning home, etc etc.
emmett 10y ago
Trump's senior strategist, his appointee to the Security Council and political advisor is Steve Bannon. “Isn’t the beating heart of this problem, the real beating heart of it, of what we gotta get sorted here, not illegal immigration?” Bannon asked Miller. “As horrific as that is, and it’s horrific, don’t we have a problem? We’ve looked the other way on this legal immigration that’s kinda overwhelmed the country?” Bannon goes on to decry the “oligarchs” of Silicon Valley and Washington and call the number of immigrants in the United States “scary.” It's very hard to say Trump's given "no sign" of being against legal immigration. He has yet to actually put forward an anti-legal immigration Bill in the first two weeks of his presidency, but it seems likely he will given his choice of advisors.
nerfhammer 10y ago
He campaigned on banning Muslims and signed an executive order partially to that effect the other day.
dragonwriter 10y ago
> There is immigration, and illegal immigration. > Trump has given no sign of being against the former. Except the current E.O., which affects currently legal immigrants, and a draft the administration has circulated which targets many more currently legal immigrants [0], and restrictions on currently-legal immigration that go beyond either of those that he called for on the campaign trail. [0] http://wapo.st/2kOhRNp?tid http://wapo.st/2kOhRNp?tid
metaphorm 10y ago
Trump has actively insinuated that he supports a nativist (i.e. white nationalist) immigration policy.