Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by jorvi on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:49PM (#13859571)

Not true. 70% of Somalians in The Netherlands are still on welfare after 2 years. Most other Africans, most Middle-Eastern types etc all hover between 25 and 50%. In comparison, most Europeans hover around 1-5%. And this is from the CBS (Central Bureau of Statistics), which is a government institution.

https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2015/31/zeven-van-de-tien-so...

Edit: guys.. just read the link or come with rebuttals instead of this lame cop-out when facing the truth. I thought we are people of science and facts here?

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by xapata on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:17PM (#13861936)

How many Somalian immigrants are on welfare after 5 years? 10 years? What's the economic productivity of those Somalians -- not just the taxes paid, but the profit made by their employers? What's the cost of that welfare? How many citizens are on welfare in an average year?

I think we could use more facts before coming to a conclusion.

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by scatters on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:56PM (#13859668)

Does that count people legally barred from working (e.g. refugees)?

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by jorvi on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:15PM (#13859927)

No, they are former refugees ('voormalige asielzoekers').

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by cplanas on Monday March 13, 2017 @03:46PM (#13861631)

Netherlands is a different country that applied very different immigrant policies. Pretty bad ones, I would say. The fact that Netherlands immigration policy may be a failure does not imply anything about the US one, or about immigration as a whole.

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