to break our immigration system. president trump in office for six months still waiting for lesser appointees to be confirmed by the. senate. lee francis cecina. head immigration service to major homeland security agency plays a big role in implementing immigration. he easily should be confirmed. the vote was delayed not by a liberal but by thom tillis of north carolina who placed a hold on the nomination to keep it from being voted on. why? why is he holding cecina hostage? he wants the trump administration to break a campaign promise and agree to grant more h 2 b visas that program allows companies to import foreign workers for temporary gigs in fields like landscaping, tourism and construction the jobs poorer americans could benefit from. intended to fix labor shortages. in practice it is easily abused with employers using it it to displace american
trump exploited it perfectly. the message and the messenger. who is the chief messenger for democrats? eugene scott, thank you. appreciate it. the tech industry spending big in president trump s washington. google, apple, amazon, uber, they re spending record amounts on lobbying this year according to new disclosures. google paid nearly $6 million from april to june. wow. just one quarter, right? amazon, apple spent $3.2 million and $2.2 million respectively. uber spent $430,000 relative newcomer there. silicon valley clashes with the trump administration on a lot of things. climate change, net neutrality, immigration, h1b visas. last month, top tech ceos met with the president to discuss the issues. you know, lobbying federal agencies in congress is another way to influence decisions. another issue comes spent big on companies spent big on, corporate tax reform. the administration will benefit hugely from trump s plan especially the one-time tax
ruhl ruhle . every day thousands of employees leave their jobs for a better opportunity somewhere else. but if you try that in idaho, you could be in big trouble. thanks to a state law, if you want to leave your job, you have to first prove your departure won t adversely affect your company. it s like a noncomplete clause on crack basically. it was designed to help companies grow without having to worry about losing their best talent. but it might do just the opposite. in fact experts say not having noncompetes actually fosters the growth. they point to california and the explosion of silicon valley. you remember there was talk of agreements between the big tech companies in silicon valley about how they wouldn t poach workers from each other. it goes against everything america is and meritocracy is. we associate that with other countries. when we talk about h 1 b visas, if i import you from india, you
immigrant workers makes him the perfect person to help us wade through the aspects of legal immigration, visas and everything in north dakota, we need more h1b visas for microsoft campus and other high tech industries. we need something with his breadth of experience. if he s the perfect person, why so many voted for him to do so, why doesn t he do it? stephanie, i believe he is doing it and i think he s going to do it more when worng with us and congress to find that disconnect between our education system and the economy and immigration system based more on lottery than it is based on jobs needed in the workforce. he can bring that perspective along with a whole bunch of other people to try to solve the issue. but you can t bring you can t if there are people in the united states that and we know there are industries that have a workforce shortage that requires bringing immigrants in we don t have a shortage we don t have a shortage of
companies are unfairly pinpointed. he says, all the technology companies are exploding h1b visas, and what s interesting, you sponsor someone for that visa if you re the company. therefore, he cannot compete in the marketplace. your essentially own it, you want to jump ship, go to another company for more money, he s got a goalie back to india. neil: all right, thank you. all right, i wanted to speck on the white house right now, where don t know how long this meeting will go on. we do know that these 40 plus republican senators meeting with the president usually, they can t resist the opportunity to speak with reporters afterwards. i say, usually, but not all the time. sometimes if they re nowhere near an agreement they will bypass such an opportunity. rand paul already at the white house a few hours ago meeting with the present. he is not part of this gathering now, but he will be gathering with us. tells was on the presidents mind and by the way, his own. after this.