i'm happy to be back and i want to thank bobby kilberg and all the people here at nvtc for giving me the chance to come back and talk about issues that are facing our country right now and get the time to take some of your questions, which i enjoy doing the most. let's start with the group of folks i'm in front of this morning and this region. this is obviously an extraordinarily important region in our country's future. the technology industry here has provided an extraordinary amount of economic growth and jobs, great innovation for our citizens, and extraordinary promise for the future if -- if -- we decide to get our country moving in the right direction, do the things we need to do. this region, of course, over time, has become completely interwoven with the government. we understand that. but we also know that there has to be continued, really robust growth of the private sector to make sure that we don't have any region this or any other one become completely dependent upon government for your economic growth, your economic vitality. it needs to be a partnership and a partners

>> governor christie, todd stottlemyre, vice chair of nvtc. immigration has been a real friend to the technology industry. can you talk about your views on immigration reform? >> sure. you know i think the way we need to start this conversation in this country is to see if we can agree on two basic facts. fact number one is that people who are here and undocumented status are are not gonot going to self-deport. they're not leaving on their own. second, as someone who was the united states attorney in new jersey for seven years in the bush administration, i can tell you there are not enough law enforcement officers at the local, county, state and federal level to be able to forcibly deport people here in an undocumented status. if you start off agreeing with those two facts we then have at least the beginnings of the outline of how we have to try to try to fix this problem. part of the reason i think it is so intractable in the country is the executive branch hasn't done what the executive branch is supposed to do and that's execute. and enforc

i'm happy to be back and i want to thank bobby kilberg and all the people here at nvtc for giving mehe chance to come back and talk about issues that are facing our country right now and get the time to take some of your questions, which i enjoy doing the most. let's start with the group of folks i'm in front of this morning and this region. this is obviously an extraordinarily important region in our country's future. the technology industry here has provided an extraordinary amount of economic growth and jobs, great innovation for our citizens, and extraordinary promise for the future if -- if -- we decide to get our country moving in the right direction, do the things we need to do. this region, of course, over time, has become completely interwoven with the government. we understand that. but we also know that there has to be continued, really robust growth of the private sector to make sure that we don't have any region this or any other one become completely dependent upon government for your economic growth, your economic vitality. it needs to be a partnership and a partnershi

[applause] >> todd stottlemyer vice chair of nvtc. immigration is a friend to the technology industry. would you talk about your views on immigration reform? governor christie: i think the way we need to start this conversation in the country is to see if we can agree on two basic facts. fact number one is that people who are here in an undocumented status are not going to self-deport. they are not leaving on their own. as somebody who was a united states attorney in new jersey seven years in the bush administration there are not enough law enforcement officers at the local county, state level to those two facts, we then have at least the beginnings of the outline of how we have to start to try to fix this problem. part of the reason i think it's so inintractable in the country, though, is because the executive branch hasn't done what the executive branch is supposed to do, and that's execute and enforce the laws in this country. so you have people believing and not wanting to engage in any commonsense discussion of reform of the syst

want to thank bobby billberg and all the people here -- bobby killburg and all the people here at nvtc for giving me the chance to come back and talk about issues that are facing our country right now and get the time to take some of your questions, which i enjoy doing the most. let's start with the group of folks i'm in front of this morning and this region. this is obviously an extraordinarily important region in our country's future. the technology industry here has provided an extraordinary amount of economic growth and jobs, great innovation for our citizens, and extraordinary promise for the future if -- if -- we decide to get our country moving in the right direction, do the things we need to do. this region, of course, over time, has become completely interwoven with the government. we understand that. but we also know that there has to be continued really robust growth of the private sector to make sure that we don't have any region this or any other one, become completely dependent upon government for your economic growth your economic vitality. it needs to be a partnership a