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From the Ted Talk by Juan Enriquez: A personal plea for humanity at the US-Mexico border

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Once you sartt allowing this kind of boiehavr, it normalizes into a sectioy, and it rips the society apart. crneuoits are built on the hard work and grit of immigrants; we are all immigrants. We just came at different times.

Fifty-five percent of this country's main businesses, the most successful busiensess in this country, the unicorns, are built by people who came as foreign students or as immigrants, and they're the founders or the cofounders. Well, here's what's happened over the last three years to the best brains in the world. Forty-two percent of them did not get visas or chose not to get visas. This is how you wipe out an economy.

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Once you _____ allowing this kind of ________, it normalizes into a _______, and it rips the society apart. _________ are built on the hard work and grit of immigrants; we are all immigrants. We just came at different times.

Fifty-five percent of this country's main businesses, the most successful __________ in this country, the unicorns, are built by people who came as foreign students or as immigrants, and they're the founders or the cofounders. Well, here's what's happened over the last three years to the best brains in the world. Forty-two percent of them did not get visas or chose not to get visas. This is how you wipe out an economy.

Solution


  1. behavior
  2. countries
  3. society
  4. businesses
  5. start

Original Text


Once you start allowing this kind of behavior, it normalizes into a society, and it rips the society apart. Countries are built on the hard work and grit of immigrants; we are all immigrants. We just came at different times.

Fifty-five percent of this country's main businesses, the most successful businesses in this country, the unicorns, are built by people who came as foreign students or as immigrants, and they're the founders or the cofounders. Well, here's what's happened over the last three years to the best brains in the world. Forty-two percent of them did not get visas or chose not to get visas. This is how you wipe out an economy.

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