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[ NNSquad ] Kicking out Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs -- and shooting ourselves in the foot 

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.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
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 - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
 - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
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