GM Will Assist Any Employee Affected By President Trump’s Travel Ban
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While Ford has come out to publicly condemn President Trump’s executive order to halt immigration from several middle eastern countries, according to Ford Authority, General Motors has stayed quiet on the matter.
However, according to an internal memo from GM, the company has vowed to help any employee affected by the travel ban. A GM spokesperson told Business Insider the company is not aware of any employee affected at this time by the executive order.
“To date, we are not aware of any GM employee directly impacted by the policy,” the spokesperson said.
The full memo can be found below:
Travel and Immigration Policy Update
As you are aware, issues of immigration and travel have been at the forefront of discussion since a new Executive Order was issued last Friday. Some of our colleagues operate here with a GM-sponsored work visa and a few are from the countries affected by the Executive Order.
Please know that, per our normal business practices, if any GM employee traveling back to the U.S. with a visa encounters difficulties, GM will provide the employee and his/her family with support.
At General Motors, we value and respect individual differences. We appreciate what each individual brings to the team, including background, education, gender, race, ethnicity, working and thinking styles, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, religious background, age, generation, disability, cultural expertise and technical skill. Empowering these unique perspectives keeps GM on the cutting edge of technological innovation in the fast-paced automotive industry.
We will continue to provide updates as needed if there are new developments.
To reiterate, GM has not taken a solid stance on the executive order, and GM CEO Mary Barra has not personally commented on the matter. Though, Barra will meet with President Trump on Friday to discuss manufacturing in the United States as part of her role in the president’s Economic Policy Forum.
Ford CEO Mark Fields and Executive Chairman Bill Ford released a joint statement yesterday regarding the latest policy stating the following:
Respect for all people is a core value of Ford Motor Company, and we are proud of the rich diversity of our company here at home and around the world. That is why we do not support this policy or any other that goes against our values as a company.
GM needs to make a stand against the ban now…Ford already has.
GM has no obligation to follow the liberal trend of freaking out every time the President says or does something controversial. Especially if it’s in the interest of national security.
EXACTLY !
The bottom line is the politically correct obsessed GM PR narrative here and Mary B. unsurprisingly on her part are methodically very smart playing a long game here and Ford Motor is cowardly here IMO, scott 3 nailed that one below in the comments here .
Read more: http://gmauthority.com/blog/2017/01/gm-will-assist-any-employee-affected-by-president-trumps-travel-ban/#ixzz4XPdsIND1
They do need to, that they’re for it.
Ah grasshopper, this is the first problem to come from CEO Barra’s role in the Trump dictatorship. I wonder if she would have declined Trump’s offer to be on his advisory council if she would be able to take the same position her cross-town rival took. I wonder what the next moral compromise will be.
The bottom line is the politically correct obsessed GM PR narrative here and Mary B. unsurprisingly on her part are methodically very smart playing a long game here and Ford Motor is cowardly here IMO, scott 3 nailed that one below in the comments here .
Read more: http://gmauthority.com/blog/2017/01/gm-will-assist-any-employee-affected-by-president-trumps-travel-ban/#ixzz4XPdsIND1
mark ruess aready has spoke out about it .
If he spoke out against the lawfull executive order here it would be out of hand IMO .
IMO > Mary B. and GM PR are playing the smart long game here and not the cowardly expediency Ford Motor is playing IMO
I’m ecstatic President Trump is fulfilling his campaign promises, and I’m proud he’s our President.
Ford pandered to the alt-left hoping to drum up some sales. What a scabberous, obsiquious, opportunistic bunch.
If GM is at all smart, they’ll leave it at saying they’ll help their employees who are affected by this temporary travel ban; GM helping to expedite the vetting process for their employees is perfectly acceptable.
Ok it is time to put things into accurate perspective.
#1 This is only a pause on immigration from 7 countries and effects a small number of people only for 90 days or less.
#2 How did they pick these countries? Well they chose them from a list left by the Obama staff on 6 of 7 countries with no internal central government that has the lintel share or willing to share with us. The 7th is Iraq and they just do not have control of their whole country at this point and have a good number of ISSI since our people were pulled out. You remember ISSI was the JV team.
#3 GM has no people involved and odds are good they have no one in country in these states as they are so unstable GM has refrained from Bushiness. Ford may be more involved since they may have connection from Ford of Europe. Not to mention Dearborn is one of the largest Arab areas in the country so they may have had fear of protest.
#4 What has kept us safe for the most part is being proactive in our actions since 9/11. Should we wait to fix these holes only after something happens or do we taken proactive action so we can protect our land and so we can let people in from these countries with no worry that they are intent to bring harm. It is better for us and them to get these issues fixed.
#5 These protest were the same people George Soros has paid 50 groups over $100 Million dollars to protest things. They started at Wall Street 9 years ago and change their complaint based on the need. Last week it was a woman’s march today the pause tomorrow the SCOTUS choice. They could be doing things like working to resolve the crime and murder in Chicago but that does not fit their narrative to demonize those who want to protect our country and form of government.
One may ask where is Chuck Schumer’s tears for the murdered in Chicago?
Barras roll here is that she has no knife in this fight. How many people and cars does GM have in Libya? Syria? Yemen? Etc? none. So with that said there is no need for action. Only 109 people were detained and most of the will be cleared.
Time to stop taking the Soro’s bait and use your mind to think on your own.
Hate is a terrible thing. While I did not agree with the last admin I did not hate them. Time for the left to do the same. We are one country and need to learn that you can’t always get what you want but if you try you get what you need.
speaking of 9/11, isn’t it curious trump didn’t put Saudi Arabia on that list?
didn’t just about all of the 9/11 terrorist(including osama bin laden) come from there?
saudi arabia provides millions to finance extreme religious schools that breed terrorists.
if security was my priority, i’d put them at the top of the list.
What you and many others do not understand I’d the Saudi govement is more a family feud more than a country.
While one part of the ruling side of the family works to remain in power the other half that is not as moderate is working to under mine them. Many on The non ruling conservative side use and fund terror not only against us and Israel but even against the moderate ruling side of the family.
They are always one assinasion away from a shift to a government that would make Iran look friendly.
The ruling family works with us and even Israel but for their own protection it is not widely publicized. But even with the intell things can still happen.
That is why the are not on the list as we have things in place now and most of the major issues happened before much vetting was done.
I would urge many to read up on the house od Saudi and learn much of how that country operates. Too few American know and with the powder keg it is we all should be aware of the issues of the family and the threats they pose to each other.
stop making excuses.
the elite saudis try to appease their religious nuts by giving them money for their schools which are nothing more than factories for extremism.
No excuses just how it is.
You also have the factor of Iran supporting terror in Yemen now trying to encircle them. The far right of the family would like to let them in.
Why does Iran and even Russia want to control them? Oil prices. They have tried to balance the price of oil with production. Why? To keep the price up so the can pay their people in there country and keep them happy. If they fail to do so they would be overthrown.
The other factor is that they have tried to cut production to hurt Iran and Russia with low oil prices. It is a fine balance and we want the present family tat is leading to remain.
They are not only help us on intell but let us have bases there and launch missions there. As of this week we have been offered help provide safe zones for Syrians displace by ISSI and Russia.
Are these people perfect ,,,,no. But they are about as civil as we will find in a region that who ever has the most influence will control global oil prices that directly effects the value of many currencies including the dollar.
Sorry but the simple minded NY Times approach here does not work. In this region you have to take in all the factors and that is why peace is so elusive.
Add to this the past administration really FD upped the position of strength we held. Today we are in a weak position and we are a Joke to Iran. We also screwed Israel and Egypt.
The bottom line is today as the world is structured we can not just sit on this side of the world and hide from all this. When we held influence things were far from perfect but they were better than what we have today.
Here in this country so many have no clue how our government works which is sad. What is worse is we should be teaching what is going on in the Middle East and how each county operates this us where WWIII will star and the better we understand it the better chance we have to slow it from coming.
Opinions and Civics – facts 101,
The bottom line is GM and Mary B. are methodically very smart playing a long game here and Ford Motor is cowardly IMO, scott 3 nailed that one .
scott3has a very good handle on what it is all about relating to his posts above ,he is obviously well informed and likely traveled abroad like some of us to get a *legitimate world perspective outside of domestic liberal propaganda and our dismal higher educational money pits and K-12 public education detention centers .
Legitimate education ,travel abroad ,real world history and various governance structures studies tell us our representative republic is wisely not a simple majority rule democracy beyond liberal propaganda and wishful self serving narratives now that they suddenly lost the legitimate november 2016 electoral vote and manufactured electoral college outrage to suit thier false narratives but wre fine with it long as they won .
The wealthy influential liberals and globalists only care about immigrants and refugees for perpetual liberal voting blocs .
An appalling decades old lack of factual history and civics education prevalent now in America is an exigent peril to our freedoms and the free world.
Education beyond liberal propaganda and liberal education indoctrination and revisionist history would do many Americans ,the free world and America a lot of good .
The liberals and desperately vote pandering for 2020 democrats are on the wrong side of History today and are morally bankrupt like the liberal media political activist propagandists that don’t even pretend to be objective anymore and don’t care about facts anymore and the same goes for morally bankrupt Hollywood and liberal education .
Nothing is new with this short term travel /immigration restriction aside from the usual manufactured selective liberal outrage and manufactured protests if its GOP doing this at the time and unabashedly politically activist liberal media that at least used to pretend to be objective.
Note also foreign nationals abroad documented or not do not have constitutional protections or guarantees to be able to enter USA visa ,visa waiver or not ☺
Thanks.
I try to spend a little time over the years learning what is really in play and no just trust the left or right dialogue.
Nice to see that someone else has taken the time to learn and understand what really is in play.
The Trump people really should have been better prepared for the accusations they are getting but they are new at this and still at time feel they do not have to explain things that even the previous administration did. Many forget Obama did the same thing in several countries in his term for the length of 6 months.
It is sad people anymore just believe what they are spoon fed and or just want to hate. We saw it on the right in the last admin and we are now seeing it on the left this admin.
This time there are some very despicable people behind much of this like Mr Soros and others who are basically wanting to change our country to a greater social base and open out boarders to destroy our democracy as we know it.
In the 60’s we had protesters who were stoned but at least they knew what they were protesting. Today we have many plants that are out there making noise but no clue even what they protest. They are there for the money and will protest what ever they are told to do. Many also would like to harm our way of government. They are shipped in by bus and organize these protest with people who are just filled with hate from the media on the web that is often tainted to.
Just like many of the stories like this. #1 it is not a Muslim ban as a majority of the Muslim counties are not included. #2 it is not a ban just a 90 day look to fix the issues of not being able to identify these people.
Case in point in these counties they think Honor killing is ok in many. So they may have even killed a family member and it will not show on their record. We would like to do as much as we can to know this before we let them in as they may be involved with one of you family members and feel they were shamed for something and take them out. It may not be an act of terror but it is not an accepted practice here in the west no matter who you are. It has happened already here and we would like to decrease the chance it will happen again.
Same for Terror. Some say Trump made a move like Post 9/11 but with no 9/11. What is he to do wait and do it after we have another 9/11?
I have a friend in the FBI who has tracked down and help stop things that never made the news. We have not been just good but also very lucky so we need to do all we can to minimize the risk. It is inevitable something will happen again but are vigilance and lack of ignorance will help delay this. We have enough problems here internally and do not need the things already happening in Europe.
The fear is a manufactured fear on the left right now. They are desperate because they did not think they were going to lose. Soros lost around a Billion dollars in his investments as did Buffet because they sold thinking Clinton was going to win. Buffet has been on a buying spree now.
Next you will see web sites from organizations never existed days ago asking for money to save the poor families. I hope they are vetted as I fear they are web scams in many cases and will only take your money and run. Remember the true number of effected people here and that this will be changes in most of these 7 countries in 90 days or less. What are these people going to do buy the folks at the airport a wrap for lunch before they are released.
Most of these people are getting in and there was a hang up on Green card holders but that has since been corrected.
People really need to do their home work on these issues anymore no matter what side you are on.
A brief, 90 day travel ban on 7 countries (chosen by the Obama Administration) that have strong ties to Muslim Extremism in order to be certain these individuals are properly vetted before entering the country. I’m am beyond outraged! Who in their right mind would want to make certain terrorists are not invading their country?!
scott3,
” People really need to do their homework on these issues anymore no matter what side you are on.”
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Right ,Our friends will argue with us ,our enemies are intolerant .
The liberals , globalists and the greens have become and begat politically correct wholly intolerant belligerent cowards .
IMO the Ford Motor executive comments on the comment thread subject exemplify modern Globalist moral cowardice and should be a tell about Ford Motor and a lot of US /Global corporate present governance .
I can not Imagine Alan Mulally or Mary Barra doing that both of them may have good moral conviction IMO .
Many give undue influence to morally bankrupt celebrities ,oligarchs ,politicians,a morally bankrupt political establishment and platforms ,morally bankrupt companies ,-thier principles, morally bankrupt media properties , athletes and wholly morally bankrupt progressive liberal secular governance
Many folks have forgot how to become *legitimately educated ,legitimately educate others,think critically and become accountable to others ,fiscally prudent and become or remain vigilant moral citezens .
Without broad populist legitimate educational,moral cultural change and defeating evil terrorists blocs , nations and globalism the free world may not make it close to the next century noting the free world is only a brief ink blot in history .
Historically Political change is usually more about wealth and power re redistribution at the top percentile of the oligarchical powers at the moment than the population benefiting as whole.
We did not heed Presidents Eisenhower dire prophetic undue influence warning in his 1960 farewell speech while the corrupt politician tools ,tyrants and left and right oligarchies ,the greens bad energy policies ,globalists and wholly bad geo political and trade doctrines starting before and at the end of WWII plundered global wealth along with that of most of the free world that is virtually in chaos now .
History again tells us the populist manipulation in the free world by the right and the left wealthy and influential factions or any socialist revolution that history also tells us will always result in fascist dictatorship or some kind of oligarchy and chronic shortages and poverty and authoritative religious political doctrines like Islam which is nothing but 6 century barbaric fascist with a teleological oligarchy of clerics and ayatollahs are always about attaining or keeping wealth, power ,influence and control like the feuding Saudi families and the Shiites and Sunnis and the left and right factions and democrats and republicans here.
EDIT to above :
We did not heed Presidents Eisenhower dire prophetic undue influence warning in his 1960 farewell speech while the corrupt politician tools ,tyrants and left and right oligarchies ,the greens bad energy policies ,globalists and wholly bad geo political and trade doctrines starting before and at the end of WWII plundered or incinerated global wealth some of humanity along lots of that in the free world and belligerent regions that are virtually in chaos along with the US deficit spending , political establishments ,liberal media ,US education and US governance ,UN in general , Russo-China -Iran-DRPK aggression , EU,UK deline and the middle east and perpetual African ruin now .
EDIT # 2
The developed free world is only a small ink blot in history that is in peril from tyrants ,Ruso-China -Iran-DPRK aggression ,Islamist aggression , thermonuclear war threats , morally bankrupt liberal posing globalist Oligarchs and thier climate change fraud wealth redistribution , morally bankrupt tyrannical or liberal posing secular governance and moreover an uninformed and not critically thinking morall and vigilant free world population.