Whenever anti-immigrant sentiment arises--almost always during a recession--I wonder how people can forget the jobs and inventions immigrants have given to America:
http://www.smartmoney.com/investing/stocks/10-companies-founded-by-immigrants
If you've ever used eBay, Google, or almost any technology company's products, chances are, you are benefiting from an immigrant's work. Even Steve Jobs is ethnically part-Egyptian.
More on immigration here, where I wrote, "Being anti-immigration seems like another case of cutting your nose to spite your face--at the end of the day, you just hurt yourself."
Bonus: from Palo Alto's Sutter Hill Ventures, an article titled, "America’s Secret Innovation Weapon: Immigration."
"And if an epitaph be my story, I'd have a short one ready for my own: I had a lover's quarrel with the world." -- Robert Frost
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