The Economist
"...Immigration is, on the whole, good for economies; and right now, rich countries can do with all the economic help they can get. Rather than sending immigrants home, with their skills, energy, ideas and willingness to work, governments should be encouraging them to come. If they don’t, governments elsewhere will." August 27, 2011
Toledo Blade
"… A considerable body of new research indicates that immigrants are not job snatchers, but job creators. Steve Tobocman, a former Michigan state lawmaker, has contributed to the research. He heads the Global Detroit Initiative, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that is dedicated to boosting the Detroit area's economy by attracting immigrants. A new study by the initiative concludes that immigrants are far more likely to have a college degree than non-immigrants, are far more likely to start a business (especially a high-tech business), and are far more likely to create jobs, including jobs for longtime citizens." August 1, 2011
Holland Sentinel (Holland, MI)
"... [W]e can create jobs and stimulate the economy if we adjust our national policies to encourage immigration by the entrepreneurs and high-skill workers America needs. … It’s counterproductive for this country to turn away talent and achievement. Both sides in the broader immigration reform debate should get behind efforts to encourage the best and brightest born overseas to come here and make America even better." July 24, 2011
New York Daily News
"… The list of finalists in the junior Nobel Prize, as the Intel competition is known, makes clear that high-IQ immigrants are a key to American prosperity. Congress needs to get the instant message." June 14, 2011
The Wall Street Journal
"Republicans and conservative talk show hosts who have made a crusade of 'closing the borders' against illegal immigrants have as a side effect turned the political mood against immigration in general, including the talented newcomers who would use these H-1B visas to remain in America and perhaps found companies here. This is not a growth policy. If the U.S. continues to send this human capital packing, it will find a home somewhere else, at America's loss." June 3, 2011