Immigrants shouldn’t need to be exceptional.
Yet Benjamin Fernandes is. Full scholarship to college then to Stanford for grad school, started a company to aid cross-border payments that has 1/2 million customers.
He’s now banned from U.S. because he’s from Tanzania.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/opinion/american-dream-business-immigration.html
#uspol #immigration #innovation
Kat O’Brien
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