"Silicon Valley: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs"
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Who cares what economists say about immigration? "Economists disagree about a lot of things, but on behalf of immigration reform, there is a professional consensus that cuts across the usual political divisions. Why, then, has reform stalled in Congress? Obama's strategy assumed that people care what economists think. And in many contexts, they do. On largely technical issues...Americans pay attention to the consensus within the economics profession....But on issues with heavy symbolic dimensions, where emotions tend to run high, economists have far less influence, even if they speak with one voice." Cass R. Sunstein in Bloomberg View
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