Immigrants: A Case Study

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Do you know that immigrants just don’t help their family have a better life, they also help americans have better cutting edge technology, boost earning for americans and start more business?
First, Immigrants develop cutting edge technology and internet companies. Immigrants have started 25% of public U.S companies that were backed by venture capital investors such as Yahoo, eBay, Google, etc (Ten Ways Immigrants). In fact, More than half (54%) of all patents were awarded to the group of foreign investors, foreign inventors played especially large roles in cutting-edge fields like device manufacturing (87%) and information technology (84%) (Made in America). That means that immigrants develop more cutting edge technology then U.S citizens.

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