{"id":2890,"date":"2019-02-07T20:09:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T20:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2019-03-28T20:39:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:39:43","slug":"maybe-we-should-build-a-wall-to-keep-immigrants-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/maybe-we-should-build-a-wall-to-keep-immigrants-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe We Should Build A Wall To Keep Immigrants In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-paragraph\">It wouldn\u2019t be much of a stretch to rewrite the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty to read:\u00a0\u201cGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to . . .\u00a0<em>become entrepreneurs<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of overheated debates about immigration and an ugly upsurge in nativism, it\u2019s worth reminding ourselves that entrepreneurial immigrants make an outsized contribution to new business creation. And new and young companies\u00a0are the primary source of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kauffman.org\/what-we-do\/resources\/entrepreneurship-policy-digest\/the-importance-of-young-firms-for-economic-growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.kauffman.org\/what-we-do\/resources\/entrepreneurship-policy-digest\/the-importance-of-young-firms-for-economic-growth\">job creation<\/a>\u00a0in the American economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2019\/02\/04\/maybe-we-should-build-a-wall-to-keep-immigrants-in\/#64064b20197b\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wouldn\u2019t be much of a stretch to rewrite the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty to read:\u00a0\u201cGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to . . .\u00a0become entrepreneurs.\u201d In the midst of overheated debates about immigration and an ugly upsurge in nativism, it\u2019s worth reminding ourselves that entrepreneurial&hellip;","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}