Studies Show: Immigrants Help

Increased immigration would boost the U.S. economy because immigrants are 30 percent more likely to start new businesses and more likely to earn patents than native-born Americans.

Moreover note that in the last decade a quarter of new high-tech companies were founded by the foreign-born and that for every additional 100 foreign-born workers in science and technology fields, there is an associated gain of 262 jobs for U.S. natives.