Why do America's high-tech business elites support amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens who have so little to do with their industry or their fortunes?
Is it because of loyalty to the illegal aliens working for the janitorial contractors that clean their facilities?
Is it because they want their domestic servants who are illegally in the United States to be legal so they can pay them higher wages and benefits?
Is it because they will be able to get more visas for high-tech workers, which when combined with the outsourcing of American jobs will ensure that they don't have to hire higher-cost and more demanding American workers?
Or is it because the Obama administration is bribing them to support amnesty for 11 million people by promising them more visas for high-tech workers while at the same time threatening them with more regulations, more investigations, and more IRS scrutiny unless they get behind amnesty?
Given the fact that that business leaders generally give lip service to community service while always placing their self-interest ahead of the public good, it is safe to say the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and high-tech leaders are willing to grant legal status to 11 million people if that is what it takes to get wider access to a never ending supply of foreign labor.
However, even more compelling may be the fear that the federal government will target them unless they go along with amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens.
After all, according to an article in the San Jose Mercury News, high-tech companies are subject to all types of coercion from federal authorities who have shown a proclivity to use governmental powers for political and other extra-legal purposes as demonstrated by the politicization of the IRS and recent spying scandals. The Mercury News wrote:
Companies that face other types of government scrutiny have felt pressured to go along with programs like Prism, said the industry official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Google, Microsoft, and other companies named as providing information under the Prism program have all faced government regulatory investigations on antitrust and consumer privacy issues in recent years.
So, if these high tech giants are subject to, and afraid of, their federal masters, why wouldn't they support the president's call for amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens since it puts them on the right side of the argument as far as their government handlers see it and it costs them nothing to do so?
An industry that has helped keep government spying secret and that has every reason to follow government dictates will have no qualms about throwing the rule-of-law under the bus when it comes to granting amnesty to 11 million people who have violated multiple laws and who routinely commit job-related felonies even though it does great harm to average American men, women, and children.