Donald Trump Attacks Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Over 'Cheap' Migrants

[big_dog]

Source: The London Daily Mail 19:36 EST, 18 August 2015


Donald Trump has launched a personal attack on Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg for letting too many immigrants into America.
The billionaire businessman, who is vying to be US President, said he wanted to force technology companies to hire more Americans instead of ‘flying cheaper workers in from overseas’.
He launched a broadside at Mr Zuckerberg, claiming that the technology chief was trying to push through new rules that would make it even harder than it is presently for Americans to find jobs in the future.

In a somewhat surprising move, Mr Trump – who has been accused of sexism on numerous occasions during his campaign to be president – also claimed that the rules Mr Zuckerberg is espousing would make things particularly hard for women and ethnic minorities.

‘Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs [people on a visa for ‘highly-skilled workers’] that would decimate women and minorities,’ he said. At the moment, America grants a limited number of ‘H-1B’ visas for each year, helping companies like Facebook, Google and Apple to recruit heavily from the countries including Britain, India and China.




Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3202932/Trump-attacks-Facebook-cheap-migrants-Presidential-hopeful-says-wants-firms-recruit-home-flying-workers-overseas.html

[kelliekat44]

1. He's about to get my vote with this. nt

[jtuck004]

3. He could gain tens of millions of votes with just that. For some reason he doesn't

think it important to push the TPP and send more jobs overseas. I don't know why.

Wouldn't it be ironic if he out-democrated the Democrats on labor?

[big_dog]

4. Trump sells luxury apartments all over the world, im guessing he doesn't like low wages at all

poverty stricken middle classes stuck in low growth don't buy his units and make him money

[Fred Sanders]

14. You forgot the sarcasm emoticon? Are you serious???

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. Knock yourself out. nt

[candelista]

31. This is entirely consistent with his views on illegal immigration.

But for some reason, many DUers don't see that H1b visas and open borders are two versions of the same anti-US working class policy.

Disclaimer: I am not a Trump supporter.

[awoke_in_2003]

37. You are in the wrong place then...

The last thing we need is ANY republican naming Ruth Bader Ginsburg's replacement.

[rpannier]

2. Hairman agrees with Me on H-1b Visas

He also seems to not like Zuckerberg (I'm with him on that too)
I didn't realize that Zuckerberg was a Rubio supporter

[David__77]

5. Trump could totally turn around polls regarding immigration.

No one from either party has really gotten much play in a long time who took a "populist" position immigration. The consensus has been pretty strong actually, with few cracks in it. I don't agree with Trump's position. I could readily see his posturing leading to the other Republicans (and many Democrats) looking like pro-corporate entities relative to a more "pro-working class" position. Recall that the US labor movement, or aspects of it, took a dim view of immigration generally at different points.

[big_dog]

6. Trump may be a GOP/ independent 3rd party William Jennings Bryan

he can't win the election, but he sure can make things easy for us! go donnie go

[candelista]

32. Be careful what you wish for.

It's not clear to me that Hillary, in her current and future damaged condition, could defeat Trump in the election.

[LanternWaste]

35. Bias can often make that which is clear somewhat cloudy.

Bias can often make that which is clear somewhat cloudy.

[Fred Sanders]

15. Nonsense....did everyone forget the country is a nation of immigrants?

[rpannier]

17. Sadly many Americans have

I've found it disconcerting when I see/hear Irish and Italian Catholics disparaging Islam as a religion that is not compatible with democracy.
I remind people that it was the same argument used against Catholics in the late 19th, early 20th century
Some people seem to think that once they're no longer in the 'out' crowd it's just fine to bash the 'outs'.

[Fred Sanders]

18. Except for First Nation folks no one on the continent has the right to claim being victims about immigrants.

If this apparent xenophobia over immigration starts infecting DU, what is the point of this whole site?

[Historic NY]

19. Dumpf's (Trump) did but no one seems interested in it.....

or how his grandfather allegedly got here.

[geek tragedy]

34. Trump is running as a Pat Buchanan-style xenophobe, making the same

generally discredited arguments.

He's a rightwing populist, which is code for 'fascist.'

[Scuba]

7. He's apparently better than Hillary on this issue. She advocates for more H1B Visas.

[Fred Sanders]

21. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant? Most of his project workers, too....Trump the fascist is better at hypocrisy than anyone, true.

Good to see O'M will join some of those immigrant workers today to point that out to the fawning, fascist supporting media.

[pampango]

8. Fake populism. He wants to eliminate corporate taxes and promote 'right-to-work' then he expects us

to vote for him because he goes after foreigners. On balance his economic policies (walls, tariffs and going after immigrants - all targeted at foreigners - plus more 'right-to-work' and no taxes on corporations) would be horrible for American workers.

But a little 'populism' goes a long way in winning votes. The Donald is not dummy.

[big_dog]

9. its only enough to carry a close rust belt industrial state as a major candidate

and his negatives are way too high to win anything right now

[ericson00]

10. I wonder if Trump Organization hires a lotta internationals

because they're also big at business schools across America

[7962]

11. Here's some of what he's talking about:

Ridiculous that this is even allowed
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html
https://www.numbersusa.com/news/company-forces-laid-employees-train-foreign-replacements
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2879083/southern-california-edison-it-workers-beyond-furious-over-h-1b-replacements.html

The whole point of the visa program is to supply workers WHEN YOU CANT FIND ANY

[mackerel]

20. Too true. My duaghter, has a friend who is American, he is black, has an engineering

degree, graduated from Moorehouse and also has a degree from San Diego State University but is having a hell of a time finding a job.

[candelista]

33. This is also going on at the bottom end of the labor market.

In construction, for example. Well-qualified US citizens who are drywallers, carpenters, bricklayers, etc. are being underpriced by cheap illegal foreign labor. This is one of Bernie's concerns, too.

“But here’s where I do have concerns,” he continued. “There is a reason why Wall Street and all of corporate America likes immigration reform, and it is not, in my view, that they’re staying up nights worrying about undocumented workers in this country. What I think they are interested in is seeing a process by which we can bring low-wage labor of all levels into this country to depress wages for Americans, and I strongly disagree with that.”

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/07/30/3686282/bernie-sanders-immigration/

[Gothmog]

12. Trump is being Trump

[Kingofalldems]

16. Maybe DU could get a new forum for you: Donald Trump Is Great

You could post all your Trump news there!

[7962]

23. News is news, regardless of who it is making the news.

This is news. Where has the person who posted the OP said he thinks trump is great?
I wonder if you'd have a problem if Hillary was the one making the same statement?

[Kingofalldems]

24. Constant posting of OPs about Trump.

Look it up.

[Sunlei]

27. Donald Trump must pay the most or we'd read more breaking news about Walker or Bush.

[Sunlei]

25. Trump could show that all his hotels & resorts hire only Americans. Or do they hire visa foreigners?

[kacekwl]

26. Did he forget who makes his clothing and who builds his buildings ?

[Sunlei]

29. a good point! Is his clothing line 'made in America' by (not usa prisoner) Americans?

He's a typical Republican, no wonder he dominates Republican presidents list so easy.

[kcjohn1]

28. 100% agree with Trump

I'm totally in favor of immigration. There should be more immigrants allowed in each year.

H-1b Visas are sham that are used by corporation to drive down wages and exploit workers. They basically replace local worker with temporary worker for fraction of costs.

[Sunlei]

30. you're right or they hire USA prisoners and pay them 20 cents an hour.

[stuffmatters]

36. Even if it's Trump, an important issue and Silicon Valley needs to be "outed"

So a stopped clock is right twice a day.
I encourage public exposure of this massive H-1B exploitation by Silicon Valley. Within the last few months, there's even been a post on DU about how a SV Corp brought tech slave labor over under H-1B.

Didn't know that Zuckerberg was so close to Rubio, but it makes sense.

Glad Bernie includes criticism of H-1B in his platform too.