Immigrant Job Creator Faces Deportation

Published: November 16, 2012

CNN Money
November 16, 2012

It doesn’t matter that Asaf Darash started a U.S. company and created 15 jobs here. Federal immigration officials might kick him out anyway.

It’s not that he did anything wrong. Rather, he’s tangled in a web of immigration policies that are tough on entrepreneurs.

Darash, 38, originally came here from Israel for college and returned in 2010 to launch Regpack, a software company in San Francisco. It’s growing so fast, the company already needs to add another 10 workers.

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