{"id":2181,"date":"2011-06-29T11:34:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2011-06-29T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T15:42:37","slug":"immigration-and-the-death-of-the-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/2011\/06\/immigration-and-the-death-of-the-recovery.html","title":{"rendered":"Immigration and the death of the recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>By Vivek Wadhwa ~ from the Washington Post&#8217;s On Faith<\/h6>\n<p>Last July, I spoke at the ImmigrationWorks USA Summit, in Seattle, about the importance of immigration reform. It was a difficult decision for me, and not because I didn\u2019t support the cause. Instead, it was a question of safety.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers at this event received letters, eventually collected by the FBI, telling them that if they attended \u201cthe biggest gathering of traitors of the century,\u201d they would do so \u201cat their own peril.\u201d Attached to the letters were M1 bullets &#8212; a carbine used in semi-automatic weapons by government and paramilitary forces. I never found out what the FBI did with those letters, and I don\u2019t want to know.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, this is what the immigration debate has been reduced to: You are either a patriot or a traitor. There is no in-between and little logic. Now, as the U.S. economy sputters and stalls, is precisely the time to welcome the smartest, most ambitious people on Earth. The only thing our political leaders are able to agree on, unanimously, is to further close the U.S. border, and pay for this by sanctioning companies that train and import highly skilled talent into the U.S.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-innovations\/immigration-and-the-death-of-the-economic-recovery\/2011\/06\/28\/AGI0GTqH_story.html\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Vivek Wadhwa ~ from the Washington Post&#8217;s On Faith Last July, I spoke at the ImmigrationWorks USA Summit, in Seattle, about the importance of immigration reform. It was a difficult decision for me, and not because I didn\u2019t support the cause. Instead, it was a question of safety. 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