This brief is interesting because of the MIT president's personal engagement. Rafael Reif is a Venezuelan immigrant who has been moved to speak out against an

This brief is interesting because of the MIT president's personal engagement. Rafael Reif is a Venezuelan immigrant who has been moved to speak out against an immigration ban . Reif understands the immigration issues well as a Jew whose ancestors were refugees to Venezuela, and who has watched his home country disintegrate under Chavez.