Deepak Chopra, himself an immigrant and author of 42 books, calls America's immigrants the nation's secret weapon. Referring to his own experience of coming to the U.S. as an Indian doctor during a Vietnam era physician shortage, Chopra says immigrants are the "fuel behind globalization." "We soften hard national boundaries. We communicate between two societies, the one we left behind and the one that adopted us. We move, we flow. Immigration is the conversation of the world, and it never stops," he writes.
Although many immigrants come to this country for money, "mixed into the need for money is a deeper need for personal expansion and a vision of the future... By seeking our lifestyle and values, they carry them back home."
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