I don't know why and when you decided to go to the dark side of ruining HN with unsubstantive political comments and flamebait, after something like a decade of being the leading HN user arguing against it, but it's really dismaying and we need you to stop. Please stop.
Here are the most recent 100 IPOs [1]. A quick look through the non-China focused ones is failing to show me that immigrants found eventual-IPO companies at a higher rate than you would expect from the general demographics. There's a bit of a misconception here that Tech is reflective of the economy as a whole (it isn't).
Indeed. A.S. G^2P was meant to chide the current administration for the (clearly very political) travel bans [0], temporary (??) suspension of visas (incl. H1-B) [1], and general racist isolationism.
For what it's worth H1Bs were being misused by indian tech companies who got the majority of them [1] because the salary requirements haden't been updated for decades [2]
That meant the ability to undercut american workers.
I don't think there is anything racist about that.
In 1993, the California Republican Assembly (a conservative activist group chartered by the state party) passed a resolution declaring illegal immigration to be an economic positive for the state of California. A year later the party decided to go all-in on anti-immigration hysteria and paid for some disturbingly racist ads ("they keep coming"). This gave them short-term gains politically but by the 2010s the Republican party fell into permanent minority status with little prospect for even reaching the level to keep the democrats out of supermajority status in the near-term future.
Ralph Abernathy and Walter Mondale supported Ceasar Chavez's marches to fight against illegal immigration. Ronald Reagan had no problems with using such strikebreakers
It's a recycled idea from mary meeker. She appendixes immigrant founder lists to her internet report. It's very impressive and has some real societal implications (perhaps) for how we should address immigration policy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html