NYT’s conservative columnist Bret Stephens notes:
“A common American
conceit is that we attract brilliant foreigners because we have brilliant
things: great universities, vast financial resources, a dynamic economy,
high-tech. That gets things mostly backward. It’s because we have brilliant
foreigners that we have those things in the first place. Google. Comcast. eBay.
Kraft. Pfizer. AT&T. They all had immigrants as founders.”