Business leaders must speak out against Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric

*While Donald Trump’s popularity continues to rise among GOP voters, his peers in the business community are starting to speak out against his campaign and policies. America Online co-founder Steve Case wrote this opinion piece for the Washington Post. He takes Trump to task and provides evidence of how immigrants are the ones who make america better. VL


washingtonpostBy Steve Case, The Washington Post

Steve Case, a co-founder of America Online, is chairman and chief executive of Revolution.

Like Donald Trump, I am an entrepreneur and investor, and I am also driven by a desire to “make America great again.” But he and I have very different visions about how to do that, especially around the issue of immigration.

[pullquote][tweet_dis]Study after study has shown that immigrants are net job creators, net taxpayers, net additions to national growth. -Steve Case[/tweet_dis][/pullquote]

I have tried to steer clear of politics and focus on policy — in particular, the policies that can help the United States remain the world’s most innovative, entrepreneurial nation. That led me to become an advocate for the bipartisanJumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act to help more entrepreneurs start and grow their companies. And that led me to push for immigration reform, as it’s clear to me that we are beginning to lose what is now a global battle for talent. I understand that immigration policy is sensitive and complex, but I’ve long believed it’s not just a problem we need to solve, but also an opportunity to seize.

And that’s why I am troubled by Trump’s statements on immigration. While we can all agree about the need to secure our borders and enforce our laws, Trump’s proposed solutions are too extreme and his language too caustic. Trump has equated immigrants with criminals and proposed rounding up millions of hardworking people and deporting them. He has called for undoing a 147-year-old provision in our Constitution — advocated for by allies of slain President Abraham Lincoln and passed by a Republican Congress — to deny U.S. citizenship to everyone born in this country.

If we want to make America great again, it is hard to imagine a more wrongheaded approach.

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