Opinion: ‘Guest Workers’ of the NBA, NHL

Wednesday, 19 June 2013 | by Pat's Picks

Fergus Cullen uses a brilliant analogy in this morning’s Wall Street Journal to draw attention to the immigration debate now roiling in Congress.  If you watched the NHL or the NBA finals this week you saw how dependent this country is on “guest workers.” Twenty-seven of the 32 Boston Bruins players are foreign-born. And the Spurs roster boasts eight players born in other countries. But if athletes faced the same hurdles that scientists or entrepreneurs who require an H1-B visa, there would far fewer, players would have to wait years or decades to play, and teams would have to prove they tried to hire an American first.

SOURCE: Wall Street Journal