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I am not in any way an edge case. 50% of founders in Silicon Valley are immigrants: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/09/economic_growth http://

• ax0n 16y ago
  You got me there, but I still assert that the vast majority of immigrants aren't founders hiring Americans, and what's happening in Silicon Valley simply doesn't hold true many other places here in the US. In my part of the country, I'm actually much more frustrated with undocumented illegal immigrant labor than I am with student- or work-visa immigrant labor.
• TheSOB88 16y ago
  That's looking at it the wrong way. Look at the percentage of immigrants who are creating jobs, not the percentage of job-creaters who are immigrants. Or net jobs created by immigrants. Or something.
  • seldo 16y ago
    Percentage of immigrants who are job creators, versus percentage of native-born citizens who are job creators would be interesting. To be worth it to the economy, immigrants don't need to create more jobs than they take, they just have to be better at it than native-born people.