New York Post (New York – Editorial)
June 8, 2014
In
the contentious debate over immigration, foes often point to the 1986
bill signed into law by Ronald Reagan, because it included an amnesty
provision.
The
National Foundation for American Policy has taken the opposite tack.
Instead of looking at the past for failures, it has searched for
successes.
It
has found both in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (which
opened the door to Asian immigrants) and the Immigration Act of 1990
(which increased employment-based
green cards). These laws, a new NFAP report suggests, have helped make
America the “leading global destination” for scientific research.
Since
2000, it notes, immigrants have been awarded 24 of the 68 Nobel Prizes
won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics.
This
proportion, the report notes, is far higher than earlier in the century
when we had far more restrictions. Indeed, many of our researchers have
“come from countries
that would have been barred from immigrating under US law prior to
1965, including China, India and South Korea.”
It’s
not the only argument for fixing our broken system. But it is a timely
reminder that a nation that wishes to lead in a global knowledge economy
is a nation that needs
to attract talent wherever it can find it.
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