- Every 100 immigrants who earn advanced degrees in the US and then stay to work in technical fields create 262 jobs for American workers.
- More than 40% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or a child of an immigrant.
- ¼ of the Americans who have won Nobel Prizes have been immigrants, despite being just 1/8 of the population.
- 28% of all companies started in the US in 2011 had immigrant founders.
- One in every 10 workers in this country privately employed is employed by a business owned by an immigrant.
- 76% of patents that the top 10 US patent-producing universities (Caltech, MIT, Stanford, etc.) received in 2011 had an immigrant inventor.
- Even if every American advanced degree STEM graduate gets a job, the US will face 200,000 unfilled advanced-degree STEM jobs by 2018.
- More than ¼ of tech firms report difficulty hiring and the number of Americans studying STEM grows by less than 1% per year.
- Immigrants are more than twice as likely as the native born to start a business.
- Immigrant owned businesses generated more than $775 billion in revenue for the economy in 2011.
- Other countries are reforming their immigration laws to recruit the entrepreneurs, and engineers we are turning away.
- Chile offers $40,000 to entrepreneurs who start their businesses there. We don’t even offer them a visa.