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Cake day: March 12th, 2025

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  • SAN FRANCISCO — The tech industry has long prided itself on its many immigrant founders, executives and software programmers. Now, fears are growing among foreign tech workers that their lives and careers may be upended by the Trump administration’s more stringent immigration policies. Tech companies are telling employees on visas not to leave the United States out of concern they might not be allowed back in. Law firms are warning that denial rates for high-skilled visas could rise, as they did during President Donald Trump’s first term. And the administration’s efforts to end automatic citizenship for those born in the U.S. is making immigrant tech workers fear that their future children could be stateless.



  • I wonder if this will trigger republicans to enact gun laws

    Mulford Act A 1967 California bill to repeal the law that permitted citizens to carry loaded weapons in public places The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that prohibited public carrying of loaded firearms without a permit. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, and signed into law by governor of California Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted with the goal of disarming members of the Black Panther Party who were conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods, in what would later be termed copwatching. Wikipedia