News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Mar. 29, 2013: Dear Mr. President,
Now that you have pushed back your hope for an immigration reform measure from June to the Summer, maybe it’s time you place a call to Facebook’s 28-year-old billionaire CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, given reports that he is forming a political group to address immigration reform among other issues.
Reports of Zuckerberg’s coming out on this issue will be sure to boost the campaign for this measure, as he will be certainly putting his money where his mouth is, and a major media blitz selling this bill’s economic strengths will only help – not hurt!
It is critical to make sure all the players like Zuckerberg are strongly pushing together for this measure and are lined up behind you to ensure passage of a comprehensive immigration reform bill, now, not later!
After Easter is the perfect time to also call those executives from the Silicon Valley tech firms, including eBay, who sent you a letter asking for a fix of the immigration law by the end of 2013; as well as all the other companies – both big and small, who are lining up in support of this measure.
While the ‘Gang Of Eight’ senators are doing their tour of Arizona, it is time you call the tech execs to the White House along with other key leaders, like Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Republican governor Haley Barbour and Latin American business mogul Ricardo Salinas, to let them make the economic argument on why immigration reform will help, not hurt, the United States.
Both Bloomberg and Salinas have told the truth – “immigrants work harder than native-born Americans.”
As the new report: “Not Coming To America: Why The U.S. Is Falling Behind In The Global Race For Talent,” underwritten by the Partnership for a New American Economy, argues: immigrants at all education levels are a vital component of a struggling American economy whose workforce is shrinking and ever less suited to meet changing demands.
It is time to put together your own “gang” from the more than 40 percent of 500, Fortune 500 companies, which were founded by immigrants or their children.
As the Partnership for a New American Economy pointed out, eighteen percent (or 90) of the 500 companies had immigrant founders while the children of immigrants started another 114 companies.
These are the spokespersons that are urgently needed to sell this measure to all Americans. It cannot simply be you, the Dreamers and rights advocates.
Let company heads who lobby on both sides of the aisle and spend money with both parties sell this measure to Americans in dollars and sense and you can rest assured the Congress will get in line too.
Respectfully,
Felicia Persaud
The writer is founder of NewsAmericasNow, CaribPR Wire and Hard Beat Communications.
