Media mogul Rupert Murdoch urges far-reaching immigration reform, saying that removing the quotas on special visas and promoting paths to citizenship would boost U.S. growth and innovation.

In an opinion piece published on Wednesday on the website of the Wall Street Journal, which he owns, Murdoch admonished opponents of such change in the United States “as being dead wrong about the long-term interests of our country”. “One of the most immediate ways to revitalize our economy is by passing immigration reform,” said Murdoch, himself a former immigrant who became a naturalized American citizen in 1985.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/19/us-usa-immigration-murdoch-idUSKBN0EU0Y720140619