Anti-Immigrant Ads Aimed at Tech Workers Are Running on Public Transit
&gt; “I don’t see where innovation necessarily comes from diversity,” [the executive director at Progressives for Immigration Reform, the group that paid for the ads,] said.<p>I can&#x27;t claim to know Lynn&#x27;s exact thoughts (Lynn being the person quoted here), but this kind of rhetoric is common among racists&#x2F;xenophobes.<p>Diversity (in some respect) is inherently good for innovation. You could have a room full of CS PhDs, and if they all come from similar enough backgrounds then they may all come up with the same solutions to certain problems. &quot;Merit&quot; on its own isn&#x27;t always enough. Simply having a different background could give someone an edge in such a group when it comes to innovation.<p>I think skill-based immigration is important and useful, though I do think that there should be some sort of regulation to ensure that (1) immigrants are not exploited (they are paid fair wages equal to what a non-immigrant would be paid for the same job) and (2) some effort was put into recruiting from the US first (because I think US-based companies have a duty to the United States and its citizens, at least to some extent).