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The President has come out with a bold new strategy that will put an end to this coronavirus epidemic.  He is suspending immigration to my country!

Looks like there are only two trusted #Republican solutions to everything:#Taxcuts for the rich, and
Beating up on #immigrants
I cannot wait for #Election2020 to throw these bums outhttps://t.co/st4pUIWGbt#tRump #Biden2020

— Am.Dr.Khe (@congoboy) April 21, 2020

Of course, he is merely trying yet another "hail mary" pass to his base that loves immigrant-bashing!  Only alternative facts matter to him and his 63 million toadies!  Not even the big-talking, tRump-voting, former commenters here care about facts like this, it seems:

Share of foreign-born workers in other industries critical to the coronavirus response https://t.co/GHDtPQJ0xC pic.twitter.com/PrFkaeSeGL

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 21, 2020

Forgetting the immigrants' contributions to the country is very much an American trait, however.  It is always done--tRump has merely removed the facade that hid the political undertone.  The following is an unedited post from 2009.  Almost to the very date in April.  Eleven years ago!
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Tomorrow, my intro class will turn in their papers on immigration, in response to an essay titled "The international mobility of talent." Next academic year, I think I should include in the readings this report from the NY Times; here is an excerpt:

Immigrants like Mr. Mavinkurve are the lifeblood of Google and Silicon Valley, where half the engineers were born overseas, up from 10 percent in 1970. Google and other big companies say the Chinese, Indian, Russian and other immigrant technologists have transformed the industry, creating wealth and jobs.
Just over half the companies founded in Silicon Valley from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s had founders born abroad, according to Vivek Wadhwa, an immigration scholar working at Duke and Harvard.
The foreign-born elite dating back even further includes Andrew S. Grove of Hungary, who helped found Intel; Jerry Yang, the Taiwanese-born co-founder of Yahoo; Vinod Khosla of India and Andreas von Bechtolsheim of Germany, the co-founders of Sun Microsystems; and Google’s Russian-born co-founder, Sergey Brin.
But technology executives say that byzantine and increasingly restrictive visa and immigration rules have imperiled their ability to hire more of the world’s best engineers.

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