Latina Lista: New Study on Immigrant Entrepreneurship Fails to take into Account the Value of All Immigrant Labor

Posted on: January 9th, 2007
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“As Latina Lista has argued in the past, there are certain automatic assumptions made when the term “immigrant” is used - one of them being that the term refers to an undocumented Spanish-speaking person.

But only if Mr. Wadhwa had stopped there. He went on to say:

“Its one thing if your gardener gets deported, but if these entrepreneurs leave, were really denting our intellectual property creation.

Even if he is talking about unskilled Hispanic immigrants, he obviously doesn’t know that they are as entrepreneurial as he and those that start high-tech companies.”

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