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Doesn’t Trump’s America Need More Entrepreneurs?
If you want more jobs and companies in the U.S., don’t kill the International Entrepreneur Rule.
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Theoretically, the Trump administration’s immigration policy is based on two core principles: upholding the rule of law and promoting a “merit-based” system that’s good for the economy.
So why has the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just proposed to scrap the International Entrepreneur Rule, a late-Obama program intended to lure the world's most promising entrepreneurs to create companies and jobs in America rather than elsewhere?