Why?

[Hawkmoon]

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/10/29/Revealed-The-Tech-Sector-s-Permanent-Campaign-for-Amnesty

Why are all these high-tech, big roller executives so intent on bringing thousands and thousands of illegal aliens into the country and making them "legal" with a wave of the presidential magic wand? I just don't get it. Are they looking at the massive influx as adding to their potential customer base?

[dogmush]

They're not thinking about it in terms of business.

More than any other sector, the idea folks behind tech companies are still stuck in magic "there's plenty to go around, we have to be fair" land.

I'd bet money the CFO's of those companies (or any exec that actually has a business degree) are privately against it.  But the big idea guys never actually had to learn how business works.

[brimic]

They know exactly what they are doing- trying to destroy the middle class to have a two class system- the ruling elites, and the serfs.
I would suggest building a fence to keep californians out of america for starters...

[MillCreek]

The article at the link has the money quote to explain this: "[e]ncouraging the President to take meaningful executive action, both for undocumented immigrants and talented tech workers in need of visas."

Bring in the cheaper software workers from abroad and depress the wages you have to pay all software workers.  Profit.

[Hawkmoon]

The article at the link has the money quote to explain this: "[e]ncouraging the President to take meaningful executive action, both for undocumented immigrants and talented tech workers in need of visas."

Bring in the cheaper software workers from abroad and depress the wages you have to pay all software workers.  Profit.

That makes sense ... from their perspective. I suppose being a billionaire several times over isn't good enough. But I didn't know the anticipated executive amnesty was going to cover technical visa type workers. (Is it like the Obamacare bill, where we have to enact it before we can see what it says?)

[Tallpine]

I would suggest building a fence to keep californians out of america for starters...

I think it's too late for that now 

The article at the link has the money quote to explain this: "[e]ncouraging the President to take meaningful executive action, both for undocumented immigrants and talented tech workers in need of visas."

Bring in the cheaper software workers from abroad and depress the wages you have to pay all software workers.  Profit.

Trust me, you don't want a "self driving" car running on software written by cheaper software workers from abroad 

[MillCreek]

That makes sense ... from their perspective. I suppose being a billionaire several times over isn't good enough.

Well, these are mostly public companies, and from what they taught me in law and business school, one of the paramount duties of company management is to increase value for the shareholders. 

[HankB]

Their dream is to get rid of highly trained American engineers and scientists who know their own value and expect a decent wage, replacing them with foreigners on H1B visas who are willing to work for fish heads and rice. (It's harder for someone on an H1B visa to quit and go work for another company if they get a better offer.)

Also remember, it's not the personnel department any more responsible for staffing, it's human resources . . . and one human resource is as good as another.

And of course, the consequences of their decisions will be delayed until after the exec retires with his golden parachute and guaranteed six-or-seven figure pension.