Elon Musk is unabashedly pro-legal immigration, and on Christmas of all days, he ignited a firestorm by noting that a dearth of engineering talent in Silicon Valley is holding up progress on some of America’s most critical technological projects.
Elon is, of course, an immigrant–one of the most famous African Americans in the world, as are several high-profile entrepreneurs in the tech industry.
To me his observation seemed anodyne, even obvious. America has a huge problem with illegal immigration, and there are plenty of indications that the H1B visa process is broken and needs to be fixed. But it is also true that America has been extremely good at skimming the cream off other, less free and prosperous societies, and that has helped drive America’s innovation economy.
No, we need more like double that number yesterday!
The number of people who are…
