Nashville, TN

“[I]mmigrants can fill the gaps in our economy that allow our current businesses to grow. Droves of engineers, scientists, designers and other highly skilled workers are waiting at our borders to come help our American companies push forward.” – Ralph Schulz, president and CEO of Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, The Tennessean, June 21, 2011

Detroit, MI

“[N]othing is more powerful to remaking Detroit as a center of innovation, entrepreneurship and population growth, than embracing and increasing immigrant populations and the entrepreneurial culture and global connections that they bring.” – Steve Tobocman, head of Global Detroit Initiative, Detroit News, June 23, 2011

San Antonio, TX

“Duke University reports that here in Texas, nearly one in five technology companies were founded by an immigrant. In 2005, immigrant-founded engineering and technology companies in the United States generated more than $52 billion in sales and created just under 450,000 jobs.” – Geoff Wurzel, executive director, Southwest region of TechNet, San Antonio Express-News, May 26, 2011

Salt Lake City, UT

“As we try to keep the U.S. and Utah economies growing, immigrants are the best solution to American job creation. The quickest way to put 104,000 Utahans back to work is to grow the economy, and we need immigrants to help make it happen.” – Lane Beattie, president, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, and Mark Shurtleff, Utah attorney general, Salt Lake Tribune, March 26, 2011

Watertown, NY

“[W]hy not expand the quota of visas available to immigrants who receive PhDs from American universities in science, math and engineering? What sense does it make to educate such promising students, then force them to return to their home countries, where many will take jobs competing against American companies?” – Editorial, Watertown Daily Times, May 13, 2011
 

Congress – Reform the Employment-based Immigration System and Help Grow the Economy and Create Jobs Around the Country!

Learn more about the benefits of highly educated, foreign-born professionals to the U.S. economy.

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Compete America (www.competeamerica.org) is a coalition of corporations, educators, research institutions and trade associations concerned about legal, employment-based immigration and committed to ensuring that the United States has the highly educated workforce necessary to ensure continued innovation, job creation and leadership in a worldwide economy.