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The Right and Left Are Both Wrong on Immigration. Here’s What We Need
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Caleb Watney
June 23, 2021
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originally published in
Newsweek
The role of immigrants in high-value industries has also been well-documented; about one fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant co-founder, and more than half of the American startups that became companies valued at $1 billion or more—including Google, Tesla, Stripe, and Uber—count immigrants among their founders and top executives.
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