Yasmine Mustafa and her family came to USA from Kuwait to escape the brutality of war. Although the transition to American life was full of challenges for 8-year-old girl, it also gave her great opportunities. From an early age Yasmine knew that she wants to be an entrepreneur and she worked extremely hard to peruse her goal. It took great level of consistency, two low-paid part time jobs and 7.5 years of studying at the Temple University so she could finally graduate with a degree in Entrepreneurship. In 2006 Yasmine started her first company 123Linkit, and after two years she sold it. However, making money was never her biggest goal. She rather focuses on “making this world a better place” From her concerns about assaults on women the idea of Roar For Good was born. It is a company that makes jewelry designed to prevent assaults. Yasmine story is just one example of how immigrants have a positive effect on US growth. Therefore America should do better job attracting foreign talents. Unfortunately, this country is going in opposite direction.
Being an immigrant in this country has become a lot harder recently. Although United States was build by immigrants and they are still an important force in improving the USA’s economy, people tent to forget it. President Trump in his campaign emphasized how immigrants are taking jobs from American people. The data does not support this claim. The results of the study conducted by American Enterprise Institute And The Partnership For A New American Economy concluded that for every hundred immigrants with advanced degree in STEM field forty-four jobs for American people are created. President’s unjust rhetoric also caused spike in racist attracts on immigrants. It is very unfortunate that immigrant’s work on behalf of this country is not recognizable anymore.
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