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> Immigration helps the countries top-line metrics, but it rarely helps the citizens inside the country.

What study does one "have to do" to support _this_ claim?



There's plenty to deny this claim.

Immigrants make up 14% of the population but make up over 20% of entrepreneurs. 44% of fortune 500 company founders were either born outside US or to immigrant parents in the US.


Those are stats published by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Immigration_Lawyers_A...

They seem roughly correct




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