Tech workers ask their bosses to pressure Trump over ICE crackdowns(www.washingtonpost.com)
27 pointsby reaperducer5 hours ago6 comments
  • chung81233 hours ago
    It 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.
  • weirdmantis693 hours ago
    I thought they fired most of these people. I guess more cuts incoming.
  • Am4TIfIsER0ppos4 hours ago
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  • TacticalCoder3 hours ago
    Meanwhile dems care so much about their illegals that in Virginia, for example, they introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonies.

    All the while totally ignoring jihadist terrorism in Iran, where thousands if not tens of thousands of protesters have been executed.

    Dems have chosen the side of violent drug dealers, rapists and jihadists.

    They'll end up on the wrong side of history.

    • tartoranan hour ago
      This 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.
  • burnt-resistor3 hours ago
    ICE 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.

    • kelseyfrog3 hours ago
      2002, ideally.
    • baggy_trough3 hours ago
      > The corruption, lawlessness, and brutality of the paramilitary kidnapping gestapo has to end.

      This kind of incendiary rhetoric is very unhealthy.

  • OGEnthusiast4 hours ago
    I 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.
    • legitster4 hours ago
      This 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.
      • OGEnthusiast4 hours ago
        Sure, 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.
        • legitster4 hours ago
          My 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?

    • estimator72922 hours ago
      I would just like fewer masked maniacs abducting and murdering civilians in broad daylight
    • freejazz4 hours ago
      The letter does not appear to ask for "more immigration"
      • OGEnthusiast4 hours ago
        If 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?
        • lazyasciiart4 hours ago
          At tech companies? The company lawyers and HR, just like today. They are asking for a pause on immigration raids.
          • OGEnthusiast4 hours ago
            From 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?)
        • viraptor4 hours ago
          INS (or its new parts) like before ICE was created in 2003? Otherwise the standard rules around hiring that apply across the country.
        • freejazz2 hours ago
          They are not calling for an indefinite pause on immigration enforcement.