We Need Immigration Reform That Works (Post 2 of 8) But the important thing to remember, whether you prefer one metaphor or another [melting pot or salad bowl when describing America’s immigration results], is that in both cases we’re talking about working from measured ingredients—coordinated, controlled, legal immigration, which has literally helped make America the country it is today. And immigrants continue to make important contributions. For instance, almost half of Silicon Valley’s venture capital-funded start-ups were cofounded by immigrants. If you’d seen a six-year-old Russian boy entering the United States in 1979, could you have imagined he would one day grow up to cofound Google and become one of the wealthiest men in the world, creating twenty thousand high-tech jobs in the process? No one did, but that’s exactly what happened in the case of Sergey Brin. Immigrants often bring a unique perspective and are motivated to match with hard work the many opportunities America has to offer—and that in itself is the very nature of the American dream. We’re all the better for it. From Mike Huckabee’s book “A Simple Government” pages 131 and 132 (Post 2 of 8)
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