In Praise of Famous Immigrants

Superman, having came from the planet Krypton is being asked for his "green card".

I present here a list (in no particular order) and ask you to consider how different United States would have been,  in ways both big and small, positive and negative, had these people - and thousands more like them - never set foot on our shores and contributed to who we all are:

Albert Einstein - physicist (Germany), Mikhail Baryshnikov - ballet dancer (Russia), Bob Hope - actor (United Kingdom), Zubin Mehta - musical conductor (India), Hakeem Olajuwon - basketball player (Nigeria), Arnold Schwarzenegger - actor/politician (Austria), Eddie Van Halen - musician (Netherlands), Madeleine Albright - former Secretary of State (Germany), Vladimir Nabokov - author (Russia), William Shatner - actor (Canada), Sammy Sosa - baseball player (Dominican Republic), Neil Young - musician (Canada), Isabel Allende - author (Chile), Wolfgang Puck - chef (Austria), I.M. Pei - architect (China), Elie Wiesel - human rights activist (Romania), Yo-Yo Ma - cellist (France), Irving Berlin - composer (Russia), Col. Tom Parker - Elvis' manager (Netherlands), Gloria Estefan - singer (Cuba), Gene Simmons - leader of Kiss (Israel), John Muir - naturalist (United Kingdom), Martina Navratilova - tennis player (Czech Republic), Anthony Quinn - actor (Mexico), Alexander Graham Bell - inventor (Scotland), Felix Frankfurter - Supreme Court justice (Austria), Wayne Gretzky - hockey player (Canada), Liz Claiborne - fashion designer (Belgium), Sidney Poitier - actor (Bahamas), Carlos Santana - musician (Mexico),

and me (Zaadz ambassador).

Which ones would you have turned away?