Nancy Bagranoff: Business leaders stand up against immigration ban (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
February 13, 2017
American business is global business. The recent executive order by the president of the United States targeting immigrants has not been popular with business leaders for that very reason.
You would be hard-pressed to think of even a small mom and pop shop that does not have global connectivity. Look at the labels in your clothes. Automobiles made in America? Sometimes — but where do all the parts come from? Pull out your phone that you stare at every minute. The nations involved in producing that technological wonder are many. And we don’t just buy internationally. Annual imports and exports each are more than $2 trillion.