America is running on fumes

Re:America is running on fumes by twofornone on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:21PM (#29500964)

>One of America’s most important sources of entrepreneurship is immigration—because immigrants are far more likely than native-born Americans to start billion-dollar companies—but the U.S. is in a deep immigration depression at the moment

What is with this obsession in journalism with turning to immigrants to solve all of our problems? Why can't we look to supporting our existing countrymen to innovate instead of brain draining the developing world and leaving large swaths of the US population to languish in uncertainty? Has nationalism really become such a dirty word?

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Re:America is running on fumes by RubberbandSoul on Thursday December 09, 2021 @02:03PM (#29501492)

I would like to see how this kind of immigration is defined. I once worked for a company that was founded and went through the startup phase outside of the US.

Once it was somewhat mature and had a steady income stream the CEO moved to the US and put the new head office there.

This was because the US was the biggest market and it was vital to be close to the biggest customers.

Would this CEO count as an immigrant who started a profitable business in the US?

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