America is a nation of immigrants. If you are not a native American, either you or someone in your family earlier moved to the country from somewhere else. Putting aside the issue where the line must be drawn: legal, illegal or various technicalities, we know immigration is one of the key things that have made America unique.
Immigrants have created jobs and brought in revenues from overseas markets. Chobani, Greek-yogurt maker, founder Hamdi Ulukaya moved from Turkey to the US at age 22 and started the company by acquiring a closed down factory by Kraft, which laid off 55 employees then. Chobani has over 1,200 employees today.
WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum moved from Ukraine to the US at age 16. WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook at $19 billion in February with 450 million users worldwide while its Chinese competitor, WeChat had 300 million. Unlike Chobani, the mobile messaging company had 55 employees.
While America is not perfect and needs to solve multiple serious issues such as widening income inequality, obesity, health care cost and budget deficit, it is unheard that immigrants have been such a success story in any other countries. And some of them have really created jobs.
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