**The Impact of Immigration Bans on Tech Talent**

As the debate over immigration bans continues to rage, tech companies are facing an uncertain future. One woman who has been affected by the ban recently shared her story with us, explaining how she was told by her CEO not to try and place any candidates who aren't already in the US. She expressed frustration at this decision, citing that she had sourced many of her candidates from other countries, only to be forced to abandon their recruitment efforts.

**The Economics of Immigration Bans**

This ban has significant implications for the tech industry, which relies heavily on foreign talent to drive innovation and growth. According to our source, if the ban continues or gets worse, tech companies will have no choice but to begin moving operations overseas. This is because they simply cannot afford to risk losing their top candidates, who may be forced to seek opportunities abroad. The US does not have enough tech talent to meet demand, making it essential for companies to find alternative locations.

**The Root Cause of Immigration Bans**

So why are immigration bans becoming more prevalent? Our source notes that the issue is complex and multifaceted, with many people feeling that their country is changing too fast and not in a way they can control. They want their country back, it seems, and are concerned about being safe and secure. While these sentiments are understandable, our source argues that there's no need to make sweeping decisions that harm entire groups of people.

**A Safe Country Without Exclusion**

One of the key concerns behind immigration bans is national security. However, our source believes that this can be addressed without excluding entire groups of people from entering the country. Instead, they suggest a more nuanced approach that balances security with inclusivity and compassion. This would involve careful consideration of individual cases, rather than blanket exclusions.

**A Call to Action**

As we move forward in this debate, it's essential that we take the time to listen to each other's perspectives. We can't afford to be shouting over each other or pigeon-holing each other into narrow categories. Instead, we need to engage in a thoughtful and nuanced discussion about the issues at hand. Our source notes that they've learned much from listening to others' views over the past 72 hours, and encourages us all to do the same.

**A Book Worth Reading**

For those interested in learning more about the complexities of immigration policy, our source recommends reading "The Day of Empire" by Amy Chow. This book explores the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire, which offers valuable insights into how empires have managed their human resources over time. One key takeaway is that all successful empires have integrated the skills and expertise of their conquered territories into their own systems.

**Conclusion**

As we navigate this complex issue, it's essential to approach it with empathy, compassion, and a willingness to listen. By doing so, we can work towards finding solutions that benefit everyone involved. Whether you're a fan of immigration bans or not, there's no denying the impact they have on the tech industry and beyond. Let's strive for a more inclusive and thoughtful approach, rather than relying on broad strokes that may do more harm than good.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right so I have not heard anywhere in the past 72 hours someone trying to give a truly nonpartisan take on Trump's immigration ban 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 are welcome here 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 blocked citizens of seven Muslim majority countries namely Iran Iraq Libya Somalia Sudan Syria and Yemen now the White House has stated that 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 911 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 of staff did clarify that this immigration ban 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 and a lot of tech leaders spoke out very very loudly CEO of Google Sundar Pai wrote that quote it's painful to see the personal cost of this executive order on our colleagues in a leaked 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 Apple Amazon and a host of others have 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 previous ly thought it is woring 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 candidates who aren't already in the US that is crazy because she sourced many of 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 uh using a whole bunch of resources to find these people and then finding out another 90 days that uh Trump's ban 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 immigrate the talent they're going to have to go elsewhere to get it because the US does not have enough Tech talent to meet the demand I know a 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 US you see the number one problem to even talking about this is that things have gotten so out of hand that when I share my opinion someone's going to pigeon hole 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 like pro-life versus pro-choice Android versus 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 got to listen so I spent the last 72 hours listening why would people want such a broad sweeping band like this because on 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 I I don't know exactly what that means but I'm assuming when they say that they mean that there's just been so many rappid Chang es and 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 wanting to protect our country and protect our own interests and you're right there's nothing wrong with that so don't 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 but you can't because the problem's 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 now contrary to what was 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 over the past 72 hours tells me that this immigration ban is like not the tool to solve the problem it's 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 had 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 that is very relevant to this called the day of Empire by Amy chow and it's about the rise and fall of now I know what you're thinking you're thinking jaay the Mongol Empire wasn't 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 them them into their armies into their administrations and into their governments all of them that's the one common characteristic of all thoseall right so I have not heard anywhere in the past 72 hours someone trying to give a truly nonpartisan take on Trump's immigration ban 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 are welcome here 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 blocked citizens of seven Muslim majority countries namely Iran Iraq Libya Somalia Sudan Syria and Yemen now the White House has stated that 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 911 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 of staff did clarify that this immigration ban 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 and a lot of tech leaders spoke out very very loudly CEO of Google Sundar Pai wrote that quote it's painful to see the personal cost of this executive order on our colleagues in a leaked 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 Apple Amazon and a host of others have 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 previous ly thought it is woring 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 candidates who aren't already in the US that is crazy because she sourced many of 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 uh using a whole bunch of resources to find these people and then finding out another 90 days that uh Trump's ban 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 immigrate the talent they're going to have to go elsewhere to get it because the US does not have enough Tech talent to meet the demand I know a 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 US you see the number one problem to even talking about this is that things have gotten so out of hand that when I share my opinion someone's going to pigeon hole 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 like pro-life versus pro-choice Android versus 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 got to listen so I spent the last 72 hours listening why would people want such a broad sweeping band like this because on 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 I I don't know exactly what that means but I'm assuming when they say that they mean that there's just been so many rappid Chang es and 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 wanting to protect our country and protect our own interests and you're right there's nothing wrong with that so don't 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 but you can't because the problem's 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 now contrary to what was 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 over the past 72 hours tells me that this immigration ban is like not the tool to solve the problem it's 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 had 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 that is very relevant to this called the day of Empire by Amy chow and it's about the rise and fall of now I know what you're thinking you're thinking jaay the Mongol Empire wasn't 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 them them into their armies into their administrations and into their governments all of them that's the one common characteristic of all those\n"