The recent announcement by the Standard and Poor's 500 Index that Tesla Inc. would join the index of large U.S. stocks is the latest reminder of the importance of immigrants to America's success.
Tesla's founder and CEO, Elon Musk, is now the third-richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Musk was born in South Africa but eventually came to the United States via Canada.
Shiva Ayyadurai wasn't on the ballot this November, but he still got 21,134 write-in votes for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.
U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Malden) easily won re-election with 66.2 percent of the vote to Dover attorney and Republican Kevin O'Connor's 33.0 percent. The remaining 0.8 percent of the vote? Of it, 0.6 percent went to Ayyadurai, and the other 0.2 percent went to various write-ins, according to the Secretary of the Commonwealth's web site.
