Speaker, I haven't had a cup of coffee in 30 years. I
don't drink the stuff. You can bet, however, I am going to go find my
way into a Starbucks sometime soon because they just announced--in the
midst of all of this political turmoil--that they will hire an
additional 10,000 refugees. The CEO of Starbucks said in a letter recently: ``There are more than
65 million citizens of the world recognized as refugees by the United
Nations, and we are developing plans to hire 10,000 of them over five
years in the 75 countries around the world where Starbucks does
business.''
Apple and Netflix were among the companies to strongly oppose the
President's ban of travel from certain Muslim countries and the halt to
the refugee program. I know this because I googled it--and Google is
another company that has stepped up as a corporate citizen to say that
restricting legal immigration by visa holders is bad for their bottom
line, bad for a nation built by immigrants, and bad for a nation that
is a leader of and dependent on the world economy. Mr. Speaker, there is no more iconic world brand--no commercial
symbol more associated with America and Americans around the world than
Coca-Cola.
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