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Assiduous readers of my columns know that I have frequently made the point that America’s immigration policies benefit only three groups of people: 1) rich Americans with a lot of employees, 2) the immigrants themselves, and 3) their grandmothers back in Chiapas.

The pro-mass immigration Koch brothers’ network of billionaire, donor class organizations isuniting plutocrats, corporations, and the open borders lobby to push an amnesty this year, all while vowing not to back President Trump in his 2020 re-election bid.

The co-founder of venture capitalist firm Rivet Ventures stated in a recent interview that of all the large tech firms currently operating, Facebook is the most vulnerable to disruption.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement on Wednesday that Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s congressional testimony was “less than truthful” regarding his statement that Google does not “manually intervene” on any search result.

As President Trump says he wants to offer a “potential pathway to citizenship” for foreign workers imported by multinational corporations, American workers at Verizon are having their jobs outsourced.

Michelle Malkin said Silicon Valley “deplatformed from our public schools” in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

James Goddard, leader of the British Yellow Vests who challenged EU loyalist Anna Soubry on the street and branded her a fascist, has been purged from Facebook and PayPal.

Open Secrets’ listicle of 2018’s biggest lobbying stories makes no mention of technology companies’ spending on lobbying.

Peter Schweizer said 2018 was a “watershed year” for revealing technology companies’ use of left-wing political censorship.

The left’s insistence that Silicon Valley censorship is just a ‘conspiracy theory’ ring hollow.

Quillette casts PewDiePie’s battles with censorship as illustrative of an internet dominated by a cartel of politically aligned capitalists.

Veteran conservative talk show host Dennis Prager told Breitbart News that the goal of the Left and Silicon Valley elites is to control and suppress all who disagree with them.

President Donald Trump accused top Silicon Vally tech companies of bias toward Democrats on Tuesday.

Businesses in 2018 aimed to outsource nearly 420,000 American jobs to foreign workers, outpacing the population of Tampa, Florida. 

The Silicon Valley billionaire is reportedly joining forces with Obama alums to launch an initiative aimed at storing “all of the progressive community’s voter data.”

Michelle Malkin described former President George H.W. Bush’s legacy as an impoverishment of American workers and growing of the “deep state.”

A report claims that current Facebook employees are contacting former colleagues, asking for job references and advice as many seem to be preparing to leave the social media firm.

Yet another executive has fled Elon Musk’s Tesla, this time the company has lost its Head of Global Security, Jeff Jones, after only 11 months. He joins more than 40 other executives who have left Tesla in 2018.

Snapchat parent company Snap is reportedly preparing to release the latest version of its Spectacles product — despite the previous models under-performing in the market.

A contributor for the Washington Post admits that free trade was the “biggest 2018 midterm loser” in the elections across the country this month.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff celebrated the victory of the controversial “Proposition C” homelessness tax in San Francisco, which tore Silicon Valley leaders apart leading up to election day.

New York Times writer Noam Scheiber claimed in an article, Tuesday, that the mass Google employee walkout protests against sexual harassment at the company were a rejection of “individualism.”

The San Francisco Bay Area kicked in another $500,000 to Democrat challenger Josh Harder’s campaign in October in an all-out effort to flip California’s 10th congressional district House in the Central Valley, held by Republican incumbent Jeff Denham.

Imagine living in a world where a few executives in Silicon Valley, along with a couple of credit card companies, get to control what you say, who you interact with, what causes you can support, whose products you can buy and whether you can run a business.

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson weighed in on the effort to weaponize tragedy through the politicization of tragedy. At question was the scrutiny of speech, particularly from the right and how

Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale told CBS This Morning that members of the Left “weren’t very happy” that Facebook helped elect President Trump.

The smallest house in San Francisco currently on the market is priced at $650,000 for a “shabby” 480 square feet shanty.

Sir Nick Clegg, the left-wing former Deputy Prime Minister hired as vice-president of global affairs and communications by Facebook, has a long history public controversy, and has previously had harsh words for his new paymasters.

A young Silicon Valley firm called CNEX Labs is suing China’s giant Huawei telecom company for stealing its technology, specifically solid-state drive (SSD) technology used for mass information storage.

PayPal co-founder and prominent big tech supporter of President Trump Peter Thiel was reportedly the biggest donor to the Trump Victory Committee in the last quarter, donating $250,000.

The New York Times recently published an article titled “Silicon Valley’s Saudi Arabia Problem,” which investigates tech companies’ willingness to ignore human rights violations by major Saudi investors.

The New York Times reviewed California’s new law mandating that companies in the state have a minimum number of women on their corporate boards, and concluded the law would add a grand total of one woman to one major company — namely, Apple.

Snap, the company behind Snapchat, issued a company memo about its future which was leaked this week.

San Jose Police used data from a murder victim’s Fitbit fitness device to track down her 90-year-old murder.

Google plans to emulate the often copied “Stories” feature popularized by Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook as the Masters of the Universe battle for users’ attention.

The executives of Silicon Valley’s tech conglomerates, outsourcing firms, and the farm industry have joined together to fight President Trump’s tariffs on imported steel, aluminum, and Chinese-made products.