> You'll be hard pressed to find people in the US who think that someone (legally) immigrating to the US and starting a business is a bad thing.

Then why do we keep hearing about Republicans introducing measures to reduce permitted legal immigration, especially outside of the employer-need-driven categories? Those politicians, or at least the audience they are catering to, certainly seems to think that people coming to the US for purposes other than to reduce existing firms labor costs are a bad thing.