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Time for a Proactive Approach to Immigration?
The U.S. should be actively working to recruit talented people from around the world to grow our economy, argues billionaire Bill Ackman.
“The United States is about to become a vastly superior place to do business,” billionaire investor and late-blooming Trump backer Bill Ackman boasted on X recently. “We are already the safest and most militarily capable country in the world making us an extremely attractive place to live and raise a family in an increasingly dangerous world.”
“These facts have not gone unnoticed by successful people around the world who are not happy with what their own countries have become and how their governments have turned against their hardest working and most successful citizens,” Ackman added.
“The problem with our immigration system is that it takes years for the talented, hard-working, successful, law-abiding immigrants to get in, and it takes only days for illegal migrants to cross the border and enter the country,” mused Mr. Ackman. “We need to reverse this absurdity. Imagine if we could vet applicants who wanted to bring their talents and resources here in a 45–60 day process as long as they met certain standards for excellence and character.”
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