Feds Seek to Block Immigrant Entrepreneurs
June 5, 2018
6/4/18 – Immigrants outpace US residents in forming new start-up companies, especially in technical fields, as observers have documented in Issues (here) and elsewhere (here). But in what some groups see as a shortsighted move (here and here), the Trump administration wants to end an Obama-era program that lets young foreign entrepreneurs remain in the United States for up to five years to manage start-ups they had created. More promising, some experts argue, would be to streamline the federal system for bringing in immigrants with technological and entrepreneurial prowess, and Issues has explored ways to make this happen.