As U.S. lawmakers argue about the economic effects of immigration on the country, they might as well consider that a lot of America’s most profitable companies were founded by people born elsewhere. In fact, immigrant-founded Fortune 500 companies employed 3.6 million workers around the world in 2011 and were responsible for more than $1.7 trillion in revenues in 2010, according to the Partnership For A New American Economy. Insidermonkey experts made a list of 10 Most Successful Immigrants in USA and Their Companies.
Those job-creation tendencies aren’t unique to a few success stories. A 2012 report found immigrants as a whole are more than twice as likely to start a business as someone born in America. With that comes job creation: as of 2011, immigrant-run businesses employed one in 10 American workers. That’s nothing to laugh at. Sari Kerr added, pointing out that the highest rates of immigrant ownership were seen in the engineering and technology sectors.
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