No. of Recommendations: 8
May talented and ambitious immigrants be forever welcome in USA.
I spent valuable time trying to understand the "4-d chess" argument against immigrants.
I finally realized there isn't one. Some people just like immigrants, some people dislike them (presumably there are some in between those extremes too).
And I am one of the ones who just like immigrants. I think they are funny and smart and hard-working. While they arguably cut into the salary I could command as one of the minority of european americans who is actually interested in and capable of world-class technical work, I'd much rather benefit from direct exposure to a mass of excellence and hard work, not to mention benefit from a bunch of tax payers who, even more than I did, volunteered to be here.
To be fair, I suspect, but am not sure, that there is such a thing as too many immigrants. But for a bunch of easily understandable reasons, I have no doubt the US could benefit immensely from a moderately well vetted set of 2 million immigrants a year based on our current socio-economic systems, and would love to see this tried.
R:)
