Adelson, Buffett, and Gates Take Joint Stand on Immigration

Billionaire philanthropists Sheldon G. Adelson, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates call on Congress to break its impasse on immigration reform in a jointly authored New York Times opinion piece.

The column calls current immigration policy “irrational” and touts prospective economic benefits from allowing well-to-do or highly skilled immigrants to enter or remain in the country. The three authors chastise lawmakers for producing a stalemate “in which greater pride is attached to thwarting the opposition than to advancing the nation’s interests.”

“The three of us vary in our politics and would differ also in our preferences about the details of an immigration reform bill. But we could without doubt come together to draft a bill acceptable to each of us,” they write. “We hope that fact holds a lesson: You don’t have to agree on everything in order to cooperate on matters about which you are reasonably close to agreement.”