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Essay / The Positive Effects of Immigration on the American Economy
“Many people see America as the land of opportunity – the land of milk and honey – the Promised Land. Whether this is true or not becomes a matter of personal experience. For many, moving to America may be the best thing they have ever done, and these are the people who succeed in their endeavors. These are people like Turkish immigrant Hamdi Ulukaya who came to the United States to study and learn English with just $3,000 in his pocket. He came from Ilic, a small town in the Anatolia region, where his family tended sheep and made cheese and yogurt. When Hamdi's father visited, he complained about the quality of the feta cheese his son had bought and told him he could make better feta himself. So in 2002, Hamdi Ulukaya launched Euphrates, a company that still continues to make cow's milk feta and sell it to wholesalers. For Hamdi, starting a business was difficult to learn, but he learned quickly and after only a few years of struggling, he started a small-scale business. In upstate New York, where he was living at the time, Hamdi saw an ad for an old, empty yogurt factory not far from his home. In this old, outdated factory, Hamdi saw an opportunity and a profitable business plan and in 2005 he made the courageous decision to take out a loan and purchase the dilapidated 85-year-old yogurt factory that Kraft was selling for several hundreds of thousands of dollars. . “For this new venture, Hamdi looked to foods he knew from his childhood” and decided to create a strained yogurt. With a loan guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration, Hamdi hired five of the original company's former employees and began work. Through hard work and perseverance, Hamdi Ulukaya has made his business one of the m...... middle of paper ......gnaw; Creating Good American Jobs | SBA.gov." Immigrant entrepreneurs make our economy stronger; create good American jobs | SBA.gov. Np, nd Web. April 05, 2014 "AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY: THE CHOBANI YOGURT EMPIRE BUILT BY TURKISH IMMIGRANTS" Katenews2day. Np, nd Web April 5, 2014. “Ratio of labor force to overall national population size – Google Search, nd Web, April 17, 2014. Mitchell, Stacey Self Reliance, nd April 2014. . "Static definition." Testing and evaluating an application by examining the code without running the application - Google Search, April 17, 2014. "Dynamic analysis. Definition." Testing and evaluating an application by examining the code without running the application - Google Search. Np, nd Web. April 17.. 2014.