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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Kicking out Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs
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Kicking out Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs -- and shooting
ourselves in the foot
http://j.mp/f8DdjQ (TechCrunch)
Unable to get a visa that would allow him to start a company after he
graduated from Wharton in 2007, Kunal returned home to India. In
February 2010, he started SnapDeal-India's Groupon. Instead of
creating hundreds of jobs in the U.S., Kunal ended up creating them in
New Delhi.
At a time when our economy is stagnating, some American political
leaders are working to keep the world's best and brightest out. They
mistakenly believe that skilled immigrants take American jobs away.
The opposite is true: skilled immigrants start the majority of Silicon
Valley startups; they create jobs.
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