Canada's 'Welcome' To Immigrants Has Some Unintended Consequences
Canada is taking advantage of the Trump administration's attitude toward immigration to attract foreign tech companies and workers. But there are downsides to appearing open to immigration.
by Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Oct 29, 2017
3 minutes
Right after the U.S. election last year, Mike Tippett saw an opportunity.
He'd been talking to his friends in Silicon Valley and they were nervous about the newly elected president's attitude toward immigration.
"Many of the start-ups and technology companies in the States and across the globe are made up of people who are not necessary from that country," Tippett says.
Almost half of all American start-ups were actually founded by immigrants.
When Donald Trump took office, American tech companies worried that getting international employees work visas in the U.S. would get harder. But Tippett had a solution
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