Sarah Essex
PROFILE/DESCRIPTIONArticle courtesy of economist.com THE MAGIC OF DIASPORAS Immigrant networks are a rare bright spark in the world economy. Rich countries should welcome them. THIS is not a good time to be foreign. Anti-immigrant parties are gaining ground in Europe. Britain has been fretting this week over lapses in its border controls (see article). In America Barack Obama has failed to deliver the immigration reform he promised (see article), and Republican presidential candidates would rather electrify the border fence with Mexico than educate the children of illegal aliens. America educates foreign scientists in its universities and then expels them, a policy the mayor of New York calls “national suicide”. article continued online here: [url=http://www.economist.com/node/21538742]http://www.economist.com/node/21538742[/url]