Monday, March 09, 2009

U.S. must keep innovative immigrants

This country needs our skilled immigrants, but they are going home and we will miss them. - - Donna Poisl

By E. Thomas McClanahan, Kansas city Star Editorial Page columnist

A key measure of the nation’s economic health is its ability to attract capital, not only the financial kind, but capital of the human sort.

The immigration debate in recent years has often discounted the contribution of new arrivals, while sometimes implying that the United States would be better off if most immigrants would simply go home.

Well, we should be careful what we wish for. Many immigrants, namely those offering the skills our economy needs most for innovation and economic growth, are doing just that — going home.
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