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

Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by xbmcuser on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:20PM (#13859973)

For effective tracking you will need a national Id card for us nationals. That is something many different groups in the US are against for different reasons. Such an id could solve a lot of other problems and of course will create its own problems. But I think the net benefit outweighs the loss.

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by rdl on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:40PM (#13860219)

You could also potentially do it by retaining positive tracking of non-permanent visitors and then going after them as soon as status becomes disallowed. It would be challenging to locate someone in a disallowed visa status on transition without a national ID card, but there are probably ways.

One option might be to enroll them on entry with lots of biometrics, and then do a "not on blacklist" biometric check at government-provided services. That wouldn't necessarily require identifying the US people, just validating that the US people are not the other non-US people.

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by rdl on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:12PM (#13860648)

If we can dramatically reduce the number of illegal status people by making legal immigration reasonable, it becomes easier to go after illegal immigration with more resources per person, and higher penalties.

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by mahyarm on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:54PM (#13862260)

Other than going to the DMV once a few years, buying a house and flying, I rarely if ever use a government service that isn't transit. When I first come in I use a lot of government services, such as getting a bank account and an SSN, but that is a one time process that happens when your legal.

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by bayesian_horse on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:18PM (#13862501)

I think the Republicans would object, because then too many undesirables could vote in elections.

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