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alright so I have not heard anywhere in the past 72 hours someone trying to give a truly non-partisan take on Trump immigration band and how it affects the tech sector because it's potentially big so some rules for myself no Trump bashing no left bashing no bashing at all I can criticize some policy so with that being said here we go last Friday President Trump issued an executive order indefinitely barring Syrian refugees from entering the United States suspended all refugee admissions for 120 days and block citizens of seven muslim-majority countries namely Iran Iraq Libya Somalia Sudan Syria and gaiman now the White House has stated that this was an attempt to protect Americans from terrorists trying to enter the country and harm American people but this does raise the question as to why there wasn't a similar ban from countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt the countries where terrorists have come from in the past almost all the terrorists from 9-11 came from those two countries there's been no explanation on that now there was an important development over the past 24 hours the White House chief have fasted clarify is this immigration band does not affect those who currently have working green cards and have been vetted through the security process thereby not affecting directly as much as we once thought tech companies like Google Amazon and Apple that was a big stink a lot of tech leaders spoke out very very loudly CEO of Google sundar Pichai wrote that quote it's painful to see the personal cost of this executive order on our colleagues an elite email to Google employees Twitter said twitter is built by immigrants of all religions we stand for and with them always Airbnb uber lyft Facebook Google amazon and a host of others has said that they opposed the ban and have expressed concerns about the implications of the order Tim Cook CEO of Apple went so far as to say that apple would not exist without immigration okay so although this executive order doesn't directly affect those with working green cards right now as it was previously thought it is worrying tech recruiters I spoke with a veteran recruiter today who tries to place candidates in the US all day long she said she has been told by her CEO not to try and place any candidate who aren't already in the US that is crazy because she sourced many her candidates from other countries and they're just not going to risk it anymore even though those candidates may not come from one of those seven countries they're just not going to risk using a whole bunch of resource to define these people then finding out another 90 days that Trump band some other country they're just not going to do it and that that's crazy that's going to affect so many qualified candidates who could have a positive impact on the US economy so what is the long-term implication of this if it continues or god forbid gets worse now I will grant you that some of the media has been a bit melodramatic and overreacted to this but I should say that if this does continue or get worse tech companies can only do one logical thing begin to move operations overseas if they can't emigrate the talent they're going to have to go elsewhere to get it because the u.s. does not have enough tech talent to meet the demand I know it I'm recruit her very well and she warns me that the big war is the war for talent and that's not good news for the u.s. you see the number one problems even talking about this is that things have gotten so out of hand that when I share my opinion someone's going to a pigeonhole me as a stupid libtard or a racist redneck one of the two no one's listening anymore I'm just waiting for you to finish so I can say what I want to say if I don't really listen and try and understand why you feel the way you feel we can't come to a solution we're just shouting over each other it's pro-life versus pro-choice android vs apple everyone's in a tribal camp and they just want to shout at each other no one's trying to solve a problem and you just gotta listen so I spent the last 72 hours listening why would people want such a broad sweeping band like this because from the surface I just didn't understand it so I listened and I understand that people were saying look we want our country back there's been aI don't know exactly what that means but I'm assuming when they say that they mean that there's just been so many rapid changes in America is changing so fast and doesn't look like the America they know and are proud of and are comfortable with they want their country back they also say that they want a safe country and there's nothing wrong with want to protect our country and protect our own interests and you're right there's nothing wrong with that so they'll call people stupid rednecks for just saying that they're not automatically racist because they say they want to keep out terrorists I totally understand that and that's a value I share here's the thing we can still have a safe country and be inclusive of all people and draw the talent from around the world to make this country great again right I mean they don't have to be mutually exclusive the problem is that we want solutions now that are simple and so you can just you know with one broad stroke just solve the problem you can't through the problem is complicated and solving a complicated problem takes time and thought and it's going to be sticky and it's going to be hard and let's just listen to each other so we can solve the hard problems it's now contrary to what we said in the comments yesterday i am not a liberal i am not a Republican I'm not even a libertarian what I am is like Chris Rock I'm conservative on some things and liberal on some others I try and make my judgment based on the information that I have and the information that I've learned or the past 72 hours tells me that this immigration band is like not the tool to solve the problem its way overkill it's sort of like a man in his house trying to dispatch a killer wasp with a sledgehammer and at the end of the day the men is wondering why his house is almost destroyed America don't be the man with the sledgehammer trying to kill a wasp now if I shared everything that I learned over the past weekend the show would have been way too long but I did want to share a book that I read last year and is very relevant to this called the day of empire by Amy Chow and it's about the rise and fall of hyper powers hyper powers are defined as a country that is the sole superpower in the known world so most recently that's been the US but in the past has been ancient Egypt ancient Rome the long haul Empire the Ottoman Empire these were countries that were so dominant that they just did not have an equal in the known world at the time and one thing that they all had in common fascinating do you know what it is they all were inclusive know what you think and you think a jace the Mongol Empire was an inclusive they steamrolled over all their opponents that's true but one smart thing they all did was they took the human resources from those conquered domains and integrated him them into their armies into their administrations and into their governments all of them that's the one common characteristic of all those hyper powers and when they fell they sell because they then lost that inclusivity