From:  CP <lpowell861@gmail.com>
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To:   Vince Boudreau <vgbccny@gmail.com>, JBM <JBM@cuny.edu>
Subject:  Fwd: From General Colin L. Powell "Making Americans, Making America"
 

Scott is a great guy and this address list is all of Silicon Valley. Cp.
PS-Vince, pass to Vartan.

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Friends, family, partners,

I have had the tremendous privilege to serve on a board with General
Powell, and to get to know him well. He is one of my heros, and a truly
great American. Below he makes the case for immigration reform as well as
I've heard it.

Of course I have also seen the impact of first and second generation
immigrants to our country first hand. Silicon Valley as we know it wouldn't
exist without them. 49 percent of entrepreneurs funded by the venture
capital industry are first or second generation immigrants. Immigrants are
a very special group of Americans. They chose to leave everything for a
better life here; they are risk takers. And they make great entrepreneurs
and employees. When our companies are able to hire immigrants through the
H-1 B visa program, they end up hiring an additional 5 Americans over time
because immigrants create jobs, they don't take them away. The biggest
crisis in Silicon Valley is the shortage of talent. Unfortunately, the H1-B
program is limited to something like 150,000 visa's per year at a time when
there are an estimated 3 million unfilled jobs. Think about an extra 3
million tax payers who would each create another 5 jobs. It is exactly the
kind of policy which would get America growing again, and it doesn't cost a
penny.

Please feel free to share this, and perhaps if enough people understand
what is really at stake, politicians will be forced to listen to each other
and find common ground on this vital issue for our country.

Scott

Sent from Scott's iPhone, please excuse the brevity of this message

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Making Americans, Making America

Re-posted from the Carnegie Corporation of New York
with op-ed link from the Wall Street Journal

By General Colin Powell – 07.06.2016

The author’s comments were made during a discussion on immigrant access to
higher education hosted by Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Colin
Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New
York. In addition, these remarks are the basis for an op-ed piece, printed
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Many years ago, after I had become a four-star general and, then, Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Times of London wrote an article
observing that if my parents had sailed to England rather than New York,
“the most they could have dreamed of for their son in the military was to
become a sergeant in one of the lesser British regiments.”

Only in America could the son of two poor Jamaican immigrants become the
first African American, the youngest person, and the first ROTC graduate
from a public university to hold those positions, among many other firsts.
My parents arrived—one at the Port of Philadelphia, the other at Ellis
Island—in search of economic opportunity, but their goal was to become
American citizens, because they knew what that made possible.





Immigrants
future Americans
make America better
every single day.

— GENERAL COLIN L. POWELL, USA (RET.)





Immigration is a vital part of our national being because people come here
not just to build a better life for themselves and their children, but to
become Americans. And with access to education and a clear path to
citizenship, they routinely become some of the best, the most patriotic
Americans you’ll ever know. That’s why I am a strong supporter of
immigration law reform: America stands to benefit from it as much if not
more than the immigrants themselves.

Contrary to some common misconceptions, neighborhoods with greater
concentrations of immigrants have lower rates of crime and violence than
comparable non-immigrant neighborhoods, according to a recent report from
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Foreign-born
men age 18–39 are jailed at one-fourth the rate of native-born American men
of the same age.

Today’s immigrants are learning English at the same rate or faster than
earlier waves of newcomers, and first-generation arrivals are less likely
to die from cardiovascular disease or cancer than native-born people. They
experience fewer chronic health conditions, have lower infant mortality and
obesity rates, and have a longer life expectancy.

My parents met and married here and worked in the garment industry,
bringing home $50 to $60 a week. They had two children: my sister Marilyn,
who became a teacher, and me. I didn’t do as well as the family hoped; I
caused a bit of a crisis when I decided to stay in the Army. “Couldn’t he
get a job? Why is he still in the Army?”

We were a tight-knit family with cousins and aunts and uncles all over the
place. But that family network didn’t guarantee success. What did? The New
York City public education system.

I’m a public education school kid, from kindergarten at PS20 through PS39
and JH552, and on to Morris High School in the South Bronx and, finally,
City College of New York. New York University made me an offer, but tuition
there was $750 a year. Such a huge sum in 1954! I would never impose that
on my parents, so it was CCNY, where back then tuition was free. I got a BS
in geology and a commission as an Army second lieutenant, and that was
that. And it all cost my parents nothing. Zero.

After CCNY, I was lucky to be among the first group of officers
commissioned just after the Army was desegregated. I competed against West
Pointers, against grads from Harvard and VMI and the Citadel and other top
schools. And to my surprise, I discovered I had gotten a pretty good
education in the New York City public schools. Not just in geology and the
military, but also in wider culture. I had learned a little about music,
about Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and theater and things like that. I got a
complete education, all through public schools, and it shapes me to this
day.

This amazing gift goes back to 1847 when the Free Academy of the City of
New York was created with a simple mandate: “Give every child the
opportunity for an education.” And who would pay for it? The citizens and
taxpayers of New York City and State. They did it and kept at it when the
Academy became CCNY in 1866, because they knew that poor immigrants were
their children. They were the future.

They still are. Today some 41 million immigrants and 37.1 million U.S.-born
children of immigrants live in the United States. Taken together, the first
and second generations are one-quarter of the U.S. population. While some
countries like Japan and Russia worry that population decline threatens
their economies, America’s economic future vibrates with promise from
immigrants’ energy, creativity, ambition, and countless contributions.

Every one of these people deserves the same educational opportunities I
had. It wasn’t—and isn’t—charity to immigrants or to the poor. Those early
New Yorkers were investing in their own future by making education and
citizenship accessible to “every child.” They knew it—and what a future it
became!



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We still have that model. But today too many politicians seem to think that
shortchanging education will somehow help society. It does not. It hurts
society. We need people who know that government has no more important
function than securing the terrain, which means opening the pathways to the
future for everyone, educating them to be consumers, workers, leaders—and
citizens.

We are all immigrants, wave after wave over several hundred years. And
every wave makes us richer—in cultures, in language and food, in music and
dance, in intellectual capacity. We should treasure this immigrant
tradition, and we should reform our laws to guarantee it.

In this political season, let’s remember the most important task of our
government: making Americans. Immigrants—future Americans—make America
better every single day.





General Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.) has served in senior military and
diplomatic positions across four presidential administrations, including
Secretary of State under President George W. Bush; Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff under President George H. W. Bush and under President Bill
Clinton; and National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan.



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    Friends, family, partners,





I have had the tremendous privilege to serve on a board with General Powell, and to get to know him well.  He is one of my heros, and a truly great American.  Below he makes the case for immigration reform as well as I've heard it.





Of course I have also seen the impact of first and second generation immigrants to our country first hand.  Silicon Valley as we know it wouldn't exist without them.  49 percent of entrepreneurs funded by the venture capital industry are first or second generation immigrants.  Immigrants are a very special group of Americans.  They chose to leave everything for a better life here; they are risk takers.  And they make great entrepreneurs and employees.  When our companies are able to hire immigrants through the H-1 B visa program, they end up hiring an additional 5 Americans over time because immigrants create jobs, they don't take them away.  The biggest crisis in Silicon Valley is the shortage of talent.  Unfortunately, the H1-B program is limited to something like 150,000 visa's per year at a time when there are an estimated 3 million unfilled jobs.  Think about an extra 3 million tax payers who would each create another 5 jobs.  It is exactly the kind of policy which would get America growing again, and it doesn't cost a penny.





Please feel free to share this, and perhaps if enough people understand what is really at stake, politicians will be forced to listen to each other and find common ground on this vital issue for our country.





Scott





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By General Colin Powell – 07.06.2016





The author’s comments were made during a discussion on immigrant access to higher education hosted by Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York. In addition, these remarks are the basis for an op-ed piece, printed in the Wall Street Journal (online 7.25.2016 and in print 7.26.2016)<http://cuny.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c8c1551f3c99198fef96d8f1d&id=fc71ccd77a&e=1cc2442ac3>





Many years ago, after I had become a four-star general and, then, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Times of London wrote an article observing that if my parents had sailed to England rather than New York, “the most they could have dreamed of for their son in the military was to become a sergeant in one of the lesser British regiments.”





Only in America could the son of two poor Jamaican immigrants become the first African American, the youngest person, and the first ROTC graduate from a public university to hold those positions, among many other firsts. My parents arrived—one at the Port of Philadelphia, the other at Ellis Island—in search of economic opportunity, but their goal was to become American citizens, because they knew what that made possible.

















Immigrants


future Americans


make America better


every single day.





—  GENERAL COLIN L. POWELL, USA (RET.)

















Immigration is a vital part of our national being because people come here not just to build a better life for themselves and their children, but to become Americans. And with access to education and a clear path to citizenship, they routinely become some of the best, the most patriotic Americans you’ll ever know. That’s why I am a strong supporter of immigration law reform: America stands to benefit from it as much if not more than the immigrants themselves.





Contrary to some common misconceptions, neighborhoods with greater concentrations of immigrants have lower rates of crime and violence than comparable non-immigrant neighborhoods, according to a recent report from The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Foreign-born men age 18–39 are jailed at one-fourth the rate of native-born American men of the same age.





Today’s immigrants are learning English at the same rate or faster than earlier waves of newcomers, and first-generation arrivals are less likely to die from cardiovascular disease or cancer than native-born people. They experience fewer chronic health conditions, have lower infant mortality and obesity rates, and have a longer life expectancy.





My parents met and married here and worked in the garment industry, bringing home $50 to $60 a week. They had two children: my sister Marilyn, who became a teacher, and me. I didn’t do as well as the family hoped; I caused a bit of a crisis when I decided to stay in the Army. “Couldn’t he get a job? Why is he still in the Army?”





We were a tight-knit family with cousins and aunts and uncles all over the place. But that family network didn’t guarantee success. What did? The New York City public education system.





I’m a public education school kid, from kindergarten at PS20 through PS39 and JH552, and on to Morris High School in the South Bronx and, finally, City College of New York. New York University made me an offer, but tuition there was $750 a year. Such a huge sum in 1954! I would never impose that on my parents, so it was CCNY, where back then tuition was free. I got a BS in geology and a commission as an Army second lieutenant, and that was that. And it all cost my parents nothing. Zero.





After CCNY, I was lucky to be among the first group of officers commissioned just after the Army was desegregated. I competed against West Pointers, against grads from Harvard and VMI and the Citadel and other top schools. And to my surprise, I discovered I had gotten a pretty good education in the New York City public schools. Not just in geology and the military, but also in wider culture. I had learned a little about music, about Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and theater and things like that. I got a complete education, all through public schools, and it shapes me to this day.





This amazing gift goes back to 1847 when the Free Academy of the City of New York was created with a simple mandate: “Give every child the opportunity for an education.” And who would pay for it? The citizens and taxpayers of New York City and State. They did it and kept at it when the Academy became CCNY in 1866, because they knew that poor immigrants were their children. They were the future.





They still are. Today some 41 million immigrants and 37.1 million U.S.-born children of immigrants live in the United States. Taken together, the first and second generations are one-quarter of the U.S. population. While some countries like Japan and Russia worry that population decline threatens their economies, America’s economic future vibrates with promise from immigrants’ energy, creativity, ambition, and countless contributions.





Every one of these people deserves the same educational opportunities I had. It wasn’t—and isn’t—charity to immigrants or to the poor. Those early New Yorkers were investing in their own future by making education and citizenship accessible to “every child.” They knew it—and what a future it became!











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We still have that model. But today too many politicians seem to think that shortchanging education will somehow help society. It does not. It hurts society. We need people who know that government has no more important function than securing the terrain, which means opening the pathways to the future for everyone, educating them to be consumers, workers, leaders—and citizens.





We are all immigrants, wave after wave over several hundred years. And every wave makes us richer—in cultures, in language and food, in music and dance, in intellectual capacity. We should treasure this immigrant tradition, and we should reform our laws to guarantee it.





In this political season, let’s remember the most important task of our government: making Americans. Immigrants—future Americans—make America better every single day.

















General Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.) has served in senior military and diplomatic positions across four presidential administrations, including Secretary of State under President George W. Bush; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H. W. Bush and under President Bill Clinton; and National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan.











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