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Tech workers ask their bosses to pressure Trump over ICE crackdowns
- OGEnthusiast 10mo agoI think people would be more sympathetic to this if the tech job market wasn’t completely frozen as it is now. Hard to make the case for more immigration when so many American CS grads are struggling with unemployment. E.g. I think they should ask their CEOs to hire more people before asking for more immigration.
- freejazz 10mo agoThe letter does not appear to ask for "more immigration"
- OGEnthusiast 10mo agoIf you are calling for an indefinite pause on immigration enforcement, the optics of that are de-facto pro-immigration, e.g. who is going to enforce worker visas overstays if not ICE?
- lazyasciiart 10mo agoAt tech companies? The company lawyers and HR, just like today. They are asking for a pause on immigration raids.
- OGEnthusiast 10mo agoFrom what I’ve seen, tech companies are very lax about visa overstays. I’ve never heard of a tech company that actually enforces visa overstays or violations. (Why would they?)
- w0de0 10mo agoAh, so you admit that ICE’s public work of late has nothing to do with tech worker’s visas? They can just slide by while the more vulnerable are harassed?
- viraptor 10mo agoINS (or its new parts) like before ICE was created in 2003? Otherwise the standard rules around hiring that apply across the country.
- freejazz 10mo agoThey are not calling for an indefinite pause on immigration enforcement.
- legitster 10mo agoThis is kind of a silly argument as any sort of action on H1b visas has been perennially stalled, and ICE "enforcement" actions are specifically targeting the underprivileged or low skill labor.
- OGEnthusiast 10mo agoSure, just saying the optics of this is unlikely to garner much sympathy from the public. They should instead ask their bosses to cut down on H1B hiring then instead of ICE raids if ICE has nothing to do with tech.
- legitster 10mo agoMy H1B teammates are awesome. I would rather keep them here in the States, thank you very much. Perhaps our current administration could maybe reverse their policy course that has making us shed all of our international customers and making our domestic customers have to tighten their belts?
- estimator7292 10mo agoI would just like fewer masked maniacs abducting and murdering civilians in broad daylight
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 10mo ago[flagged]
- weirdmantis69 10mo agoI thought they fired most of these people. I guess more cuts incoming.
- burnt-resistor 10mo agoICE needs to be shrank down to 2003 levels. And no selective protections. Not like how meat and dairy processors were corruptly shielded from immigration raids and tacitly allowed to break the law unlike everyone else. The corruption, lawlessness, and brutality of the paramilitary kidnapping gestapo has to end.
- kelseyfrog 10mo ago2002, ideally.
- baggy_trough 10mo ago> The corruption, lawlessness, and brutality of the paramilitary kidnapping gestapo has to end. This kind of incendiary rhetoric is very unhealthy.
- willmarch 10mo agoWhich part is incorrect?
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- kccoder 10mo agoBut not as unhealthy as the actions accurately described by the “rhetoric”.
- goatlover 10mo agoHow would you characterize what ICE is doing in the Minneapolis area? There are plenty of videos at this point of questionable behavior, to say the least. The chief of the MPD talked about how his officers of color have been harassed when they're not in uniform. I've listened to several historians and experts on autocracy talk about ICE in those terms.
- baggy_trough 10mo ago
- chung8123 10mo agoIt is the tech workers that have enabled all of this. Tesla, Meta, Google, X, don't run on their own. They need people that have decided to turn a blind eye to what they are enabling with their work.
- gdilla 9mo agoLots of tech bros voted for this too. Brown and Yellow ones too, who, even with their million dollar TCs aren't rich enough to avoid being harrased or worse, by ICE.
- TacticalCoder 10mo ago[flagged]
- tartoran 10mo agoThis is interesting but I wonder if you're misinterpreting something because I find it hard to believe that this isn't twisted in some way, I've seen a lot of wrong and downright fake news lately and honestly I have a hard time trusting anything without seeing the sources myself. Can you please post your sources? If you're right I agree that it is the wrong law to pass. However, when it comes to ICE, it seems that they're exactly targeting the innocent and attempt to create more fear and panic than go after illegal violent criminals. I'd rather see ICE reduced in size and have law enforcement go after criminals.