Trump executive order prompts Google to recall staff

[Xipe Totec]

Source: BBC

The sudden and severe immigration restrictions imposed on passport holders from seven Muslim countries could seriously demonstrate the law of unintended consequences. The president wants to restrict some Muslims but the effect could be to damage America's most important and profitable sector: technology.

Google has recalled around 100 of its affected staff from overseas. Microsoft has warned its shareholders that curbs on immigration could have a material impact on its business.

The technology sector relies heavily on highly skilled and well-paid workers from overseas on H1-B visas. If there's a risk, however small, that that brainpower could be restricted in some way or scare off others who may feel unwelcome, the big tech companies may have to rethink where they place their key staff in future.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38781420

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And so it begins.

[lambchopp59]

1. From xenophilia to this.

It doesn't say "Your huddled masses yearning to be trashed", does it?

[GetRidOfThem]

2. But this is exactly what this genius wants!

More jobs for Americunns in Americuh!

And who needs Google, anyhow. We are relying too much on Computahs!

Drumpf does not use email, and even some of his brilliant twitter twits, I mean tweets, are being typed up for him...

[Judi Lynn]

24. He has to Dictate them. What fun for someone who has to sit up with him at 3:00 am

to type up these strokes of genius for him.

[Lunabell]

3. Scary times.

This country is going to shit.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. Now the tech development will be off-shored too. Thank you Banana Republicans.

[flygal]

5. and with Devos at education we will surely get lots of highly educated STEM grads.

I'm sure believing the earth is 6000 years old will help with that.

[MrModerate]

6. Now that London has voluntarily abandoned relevance . . .

Bonn is looking really good as the capital of Europe. Meaningless little countries on the periphery like Moldova and the UK won't do so well.

[lark]

7. They should have donated heavily to dems.

Hair furor said he would do this, it can't be a surprise. Oh, wait, all he does is lie so it's hard to figure out what's a lie (almost everything) vs. what does he truly mean. My take, anything that benefits him financially will happen, like with Russia and with Saudi Arabia being excluded. Anything that shows his racism, will happen. That's why he's lying so much about big cities, they are much more diverse and he hates that. He hates minorities as much as he disdains women, including his wife.

[Stryst]

16. They donated almost equally between Dems and Reps

Because I think they were trying to wait and pick a winning horse. Well, now we see how that worked our for them.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. It's what Republicans do. They're placed in control of irreplaceable assets that

have been carefully handed down over the years, and they destroy them.

If it's of value, it's laid to waste.

[lastlib]

9. but not beofre the value gets sucked out into their pockets, of course..... eom

[TalenaGor]

10. why isn't Saudi Arabia on the list?

[GliderGuider]

12. That's a rhetorical question, right? nt

[TalenaGor]

13. lol yes

[colorado_ufo]

11. The USA has no shortage of gifted

technology specialists, many of whom cannot find appropriate work because of outsourcing to cheap foreign labor. Our universities keep graduating people in these fields with little prospects and a pile of student debt. When was the last time you called a help line and was not rerouted halfway around the world? (Go Daddy is an exception.) Maybe some benefit will come of this.

[SharonAnn]

14. It's the biggest reason I use GoDaddy and recommend it to my customers

Awesome Help line, staffed by Americans in this country. Incredible support. Best I've ever found.

[Xipe Totec]

15. I gather you're against legal immigration?

[Stryst]

17. You know that the H1-B vista program is a total scam, right?

Companies like Google set up hiring tests that no one can pass, then complain that "there aren't enough Americans who can do this" so they get their H1-B vista hires at half the salary. These companies are using immigrants to undercut the American tech sector for short term profit. No, I am not against legal immigration. But I am against the idea of a company firing an American and replacing him with an Indian at half pay and then Scrooge McDucking into the profits. Oh, and forcing that American to train his replacement.

[Elwood P Dowd]

19. +1000

[Equinox Moon]

18. Great example of his non-thinking, non-processing decisions

Prez O was very careful about his decisions taking into account how it would affect others and how.

Trump is trying his hand at white-supremacy. Let's see how that works out for him.

[Tatiana]

20. Will an unintended consequence be that Google and other companies will have to hire Americans?

Because there are many qualified Americans who can do these jobs. Just not for the cheap salary they get away paying the immigrants on H1-B visas.

[mainer]

21. No, the unintended consequence is Google will have satellite centers overseas

where they won't have to put up with this crap.

[meadowlander]

22. Or will relocate entirely to a country like Ireland or Australia.

[nolabels]

23. Probably sounding like a good idea with this nutbag we got running the place

No doubt we are in the final phase of globalization of everything there is

[starshine00]

25. this is insane

my feeling is that this is going to incite a lot of bad feeling among the very people who don't handle their bad feelings very well.

[treestar]

26. So the unintended result is more outsourcing

resulting in higher unemployment here.