“I think [immigration reform] is one of the biggest civil rights issues of our time. We’re at a pretty critical moment in the movement right now where it’s really important to keep pushing ahead. – Mark Zuckerberg, The Hill 11/21/13
Fact Check: Zuckerberg is the billionaire CEO of Facebook who has made it a personal crusade to pass “immigration reform.” The latter is a term immigration advocates use to put a good face on their scheme to pass amnesty for illegal aliens, increase legal immigration, and expand temporary visas for foreign workers. Just how it is “reform” to reward lawbreakers—and flood our labor market at a time when 20 million American can’t find full-time employment—they do not explain.
Zuckerberg also wants to attach the good name of “civil rights” to this agenda. Doing so is just as dishonest as calling it reform. Does he believe that foreigners have “civil rights” to disobey American laws and be rewarded for it? Certainly the citizens of our country don’t possess such a right.
In point of fact, civil rights are the rights of citizens, not foreigners. The civil rights movement we had in our country was about laws applying equally to citizens. But if civil rights now means that foreigners can ignore our laws while citizens have to obey them, perhaps we should start referring to citizens as “second class citizens”
And do citizens have the right to keep legal immigration at a level that doesn’t threaten the stability of their country as well as their jobs and standard of living? Evidently Mr. Zuckerberg doesn’t thank so. In his mind, once again, it appears that they are second class behind the foreigners who want to exercise the “civil rights” to come here.
Civil rights and reform are indeed pleasant sounding words, and it is understandable why Zuckerberg would like to attach them to his immigration advocacy, despite the dishonesty of doing so. The bottom line of his agenda most probably is the bottom line. Many in his field of high tech claim that they can’t find enough Americans to program computers and other tasks in the so-called STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields. In reality, the Americans are there, it’s just that the tech companies want foreigners to whom they can pay less than Americans. See link below:
The STEM Crisis Is a Myth – IEEE Spectrum
Admittedly, amnestied illegal aliens aren’t likely to be STEM people, but Zuckerberg and the rest of the cheap labor tech lobby no doubt view an alliance with the amnesty camp as a means to get the worker visas they want. “Reform” and “civil rights” are useful to sugarcoat the greed.