Ann Corcoran
Immigrants take our jobs. They don’t pay taxes. They’re a drain on the economy. They make America less … American.
You’ve probably heard all of these arguments, especially with the country recovering from a financial disaster. Indeed, they’ve been heard for a century or two, as successive waves of immigrants to this nation of immigrants have first been vilified, then grudgingly tolerated, and ultimately venerated for their contributions.
This time, too, there is ample evidence that immigrants are creating businesses and revitalizing the U.S. workforce. From 2006 to 2012, more than two-fifths of the start-up tech companies in Silicon Valley had at least one foreign-born founder, according to the Kauffman Foundation. A report by the Partnership for a New American Economy, which advocates for immigrants in the U.S. workforce, found that they accounted for 28 percent of all new small businesses in 2011.
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Starting with the bad grammar in the title, this short hit piece is nonsense. It confuses legal immigrants who have education, skills and a desire to be part of our society with resettled refugees lacking language skills, work skills, and cultural skills being dumped in rural communities without the rural community being informed or asked. If I bought the property next to your house and built a recycle center you might similarly be incensed. Try to understand that this approach by the Federal government is an echo of the tea tax that led to a revolution.
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