Immigrant Creates U.S. Jobs, Gets Boot Over Visa
2nd November 2011
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Last year, Amit Aharoni, an Israeli national and a graduate of Stanford Business School, secured $1.65 million in venture capital funding with two cofounders to launch CruiseWise.com, an online cruise booking company.
Business Insider ranked the company, which is set to launch its website in just a few weeks, one of the “20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need to Watch,” and Aharoni has already hired nine Americans.
But this story of entrepreneurship and job creation is hitting rough waters because Aharoni is not American. On Oct. 4, Aharoni received a letter from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denying his request for a visa and notifying him that he needed to leave the country immediately.
They can’t find hundreds, maybe thousands, of Mexican drug mules, but they can find this guy. Your tax dollars at work.
Immediately after receiving the letter denying his visa application, Aharoni left for Vancouver, where he now tries to guide his company from a friend’s living room. He says he believes his San Francisco headquartered business could create hundreds of jobs in the next five years, a plan that is now in jeopardy.
He ought to have stayed. As an illegal immigrant, he would get free health care, loving support from ‘sanctuary cities’ like San Francisco, free schooling at public expense should he care to have a child or two, and many other benefits. If he registers as a Democrat, he can even vote … possibly more than once.