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Are immigration policies hurting SC economy?

SC Public Radio
Mike Switzer, host of the South Carolina Business Review

Current immigration policies coming out of Washington are affecting employers and industries across the country, including in our state.  Our next guest says that other conservative states like Utah, North Carolina, and Georgia are actually embracing immigrants and creating supportive policies, whereas our state is not, and so he says we risk being left behind economically.  Mike Switzer interviews Christopher Richardson, an immigration lawyer and former US diplomat in Charleston, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.