Add another name to the list of immigrants to America who are Nobel laureates. The Nobel in physics went to "Japanese-born U.S. citizen Shuji Nakamura," a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Reuters reports.
To those who say that the current political debate about immigration is not about Japanese physicists but about poor Mexicans and Guatemalans, and who emphasize that Mr. Nakamura was a legal immigrant not an illegal alien, I'd reply first that it's quite possible that some children or grandchildren of the poor Mexican immigrants will become Nobel laureate scientists, and second that if the opportunities to enter America legally were easier and greater in number, there'd be much less need for anyone to arrive illegally.