It’s nearly decision time for another important piece of policy for the Trump administration. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals’ (DACA) fate rests with President Donald Trump, which gives some minors brought into the United States illegally a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation. It also grants the eligibility for work permits.
As a decision looms, General Motors CEO Mary Barra has joined a handful of other prominent executives to urge the president against the end of DACA. Fortune reports an open letter by Barra and executives from HP, Microsoft and others was published in defense of “Dreamers.”
The letter reads in part:
[Those affected by DACA] grew up in America, registered with our government, submitted to extensive background checks, and are diligently giving back to our communities and paying income taxes. More than 97 percent are in school or in the workforce, 5 percent started their own business, 65 percent have purchased a vehicle and 16 percent have purchased a home. At least 75 percent of the top 25 Fortune 500 companies count DACA recipients as their employees.
The letter goes on to say the deportation of Dreamers would cost the U.S. $460 billion.
Barra most recently lost her closest seat to President Donald Trump after his Strategic and Economic Policy Forum was disbanded. The president dissolved the forum for private executives after many resigned their seat in the wake of violence in Charlottesville, Virgina.
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Old Trombone going off on a disconnected tirade in 3, 2, 1…
Yes! We all know the civil war, so many historians everywhere. Only the statues they love were built in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. There’s some history.
Now for some real history. Y’all complain about what Putin did in Ukraine, taking the Crimea and how that “Broke International Law!” (finger pointing, angry brows, tut, and of course, tut).
Well exactly the same thing happened in 1846-1848, but we all forgot about that because of 1861-1865 (well, 1861-1965, oh sorry, 1861 until right now and still going)
So for some alt-history, 1846-48 was the Mexican American War, where Polk was Putin and just took what he wanted and has forever since been called a thief. So when Trump says the border is closed and illegal immigrants need to follow the law and leave, he means every US citizen in California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico needs to leave their sanctuary states and go home to the east coast. Not Florida though, that’s still part of Cuba, sorry.
This stuff is true according to actual law. The only thing making this stuff crazy is how the history books get written, and read.
And those arriving on the Mayflower also had no permission to get ashore and grab land. They, and millions following in the decades and centuries after them had not even asked for permission.
The just took land by force. And this spirit is still alive, shown in all this gun toting and flag waving.
Exactly. Folks who don’t like immigration should go home – to Brexit (oh they don’t want you either), French Algeria (where all the whites in New Orleans immigrated from in the mid-1800’s), Sudetenland Germans (German speakers in Czech & Slovak lands who immigrated to Minnesota in the 1800’s), folks in Florida need to return home to Brooklyn and Long Island, Utah Mormons need to return to upstate New York, New York Italians need to return to Sicily and pay taxes (did you know most Italian immigration is tax-based? Italians pay huuuuge taxes because the Vatican owns everything – hotels/massage-parlours/nightclubs/banks – and the Vatican never pays tax in Italy, so the people have to pay for their tax as well as their own, even Valentino Rossi lives in England), and Spanish immigrants are identical to Mexicans, aren’t they?
Infamous06 is fapping gently in his dressing gown because he thinks he ‘triggered’ me. Well, sorry, Szymkowski triggered me. And he triggered Infamous06 too.
OH Mary, Mary, You need to spend more time worrying about the QUALITY of the cars and trucks GM is producing than spending your time trying to tell the PRESIDENT what to do….
We voted him in to CLEAN UP THE SWAMP and clear out people like you…..
FIX my DAMN pickup that I paid an arm and a leg for so that it doesn’t shake like a DAMN Kenmore washing machine, and I don’t have to replace my leather seat bottom cushion every year and a half….
If you can’t run GM better, you can always bake me some cookies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How’s the weather in Russia?
Good point, Bob. She has an engineering background so it seems she would be more concerned about the continuing built in a barn quality issues of her company. There are several TSBs for that shaking issue and the plethora of other problems, but the only permanent fix sits over at the Toyota, Nissan dealerships. And those trucks are built in Texas, Mississippi, not Mexico, and without UAW hands.
Off topic disconnected tirade #1:
Folks complaining about quality here on GMA need to complain to JD Power, because Barra’s GM is regularly landing #1 in reliability and durability (against Honda & Toyota) ever since Barra’s arrival. Folks complaining to GMA about quality seem to be completely out of sync with actual GM buyers filling in actual JD Power surveys, for some reason, probably having to do with ‘topics’ or something. Wait! JD Power is run by a few men (as well as other people with pants on) so therefore men must be pro-women! Where’s the little boys so they can run everything and not care about women? Oh.
JD Powers, BBB, Or Polls in general, are a joke, a waste of air and time…..
Given your need for constant bottom-cushion leather replacement, is your BBB the “Belly Blue Book”?
How’s the weather in the SWAMP????????????
I agree the swamp should be drained: since it’s full of white supremacist Russian loving Republicans.
Off topic disconnected tirade #2:
Trump is doing GREAT at swamp-cleaning! Let’s list his accomplishments:
James Comey
Gen Flynn
Sean Spicer
Anthony Scaramucci
Breitbart guy, whatever his ‘name’ was…
His own son-in-law, now facing Whitewater probes up his endlessly
His own son, now facing CIA scrutiny (ouch)
Reince Priebus
Sebastian Gorka
Carl Ichan
And the entire secret service being forced to work free overtime, meaning they feel great while they clean clean clean (whistle).
“The only thing he’s repealed and replaced is his own staff.”
Regarding the “Secret Service” I am endlessly amused by the “Secret Service” driving around in cars with big letters “Secret Service” on them. A well guarded secret!
We should call them by their real name – The Praetorian Guard. (That’s the secret…)
The swamp is more polluted than ever . Like all these over paid executives really care about DACA , it’s just the PC thing to do .
Mary is already packing up her personal things in her office getting ready for the jump over to Disney . Her and all of the top executives and shareholders have made their money during the last few good years in the automobile sector and now just when we are starting to see sales decline it’s time to move on .
With all of the problems we as a country are facing why add to it by destroying 800,000 lives and now we can watch more demonstrators in the street and possibly someone getting killed .
GM has its own internal problems and should stay out of politics , take that energy and focus on fixing what ails them .
Agree about the tiring PC CEOs, give it a rest already and be a real person instead of a puppet of the PC police. Instead push for getting rid of all the benefits this country hands out to illegals and you will solve a lot of the problems of illegal immigration. i.e. you will stop the flow of those looking for the gravy train of bennies and only those who truly want to work hard for a better life will be the ones coming, and they will be beneficial to the economy, instead of a leach.
I’d rather be a puppet of the PC police than a puppet of Putin. Also, ain’t all this “dont talk about Russia, don’t say a single word about Russia, stfu about Russia ffs!!! … ain’t THAT PC?
Everybody should ask herself or himself:
Where have my ancestors been in the year 1700? In 1800? In 1900?
I can tell you where the Cherokee, Muskogee, Chickasaw and Seminole Americans were in the 1840’s, on the Trail of Tears that Andrew Jackson forced them on to. We can Make America Great Again by giving Americans their America back.
Sure , and we’ll start with your place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DRAIN THAT SWAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
And fill the swamp with bottom-cushion leather! How do I invest in bottom-cushion-leather supplier companies?
Since when does a GM CEO tell the President of the United States not to in force the law. DACA is Obama’s illegal executive order taken after the buffoons in Congress failed to do their job. Sister Mary should address GM problems not social problems.
Since when does a commenter called Mr.Dcar tell the President of the United States not to make decisions? “I’m the Decider!” Bush II 2003. If Bush and Trump can make executive orders, so can Obama, who was elected by the way, unlike you. The buffoons in congress are from the same party as the current President, so why aren’t you complaining about his lack of control over them? Why can’t Trump repeal-&-replace, why can’t Trump get the wall built, why can’t Trump stop that religion from coming here, why can’t Trump put her in jail, why can’t Trump make America Great Again? Because of the Republicans who dominate congress, that’s why. Hey everybody, Trump says the Republicans are losers, and the ‘her’ who is going to jail is closely related to him, and the jail time is for using the Oval Office to make personal profits. Make America Great Again? Make America Pay Again, and again, and again…
Trump does not really want the Wall to be built. He is a rabble rouser and as long as the wall is not being built he can call big rallies and tell the people that they are unemployed not because their employer sacked them, but because those bad Mexicans did it. Although most of those who actually make it live across the border art not Mexicans, but Guatemalans, Salvadoreans, Hondurans, Colombians, what have you. As long as he can make his rallies chant “Build the Wall!” he can keep their eyes from the real attacks on the standard of living of working people.
I’m sure that the never will be built, since this border is already so strongly fortified that more people die while crossing it per year than during the total existence of the Berlin Wall and the intra-German fortified border.
Same for repealing “Obama care”. Trump must be endlessly happy that his Republican party majority in Congress is blocking itself. If the “Affordable Care Act” would really be repealed, Trump would start losing his mass base because those people will then see him as responsible for the terrible loss of their health care.
Well it sounds like an Old Trombone must have blown his smarts out. First read the existing law regarding the Dreamers then if there is a law a President of any party cannot issue an Executive Order to ignore a law. Period.
Since Obama saved GM when the Bushes were prepared to let it die, I think Barra saving GM is something we should thank Obama for. Obama and Joe Biden (Corvette owner) saved GM. The Bushes were going to let it die. The hardest part for you to understand? Obama saved GM for you, Mr.Dcar, and Obama saved GM for every right winger out there, and Obama saved GM for every GM shareholder, every GM exec, every GM supplier, and yes, every GM worker as well. But y’all will never understand that because y’all are so dumb.
Obamacare is socialism, but the Affordable Care Act is patriotic, right?
No need to reply to ignorant comments but to say Obama saved GM for Obama and the UAw.