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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by drewrv on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:58PM (#13860483)
Pretty much anyone who pays more taxes than they cost could be considered "useful", which is not a hard thing to accomplish and therefore a strong argument for allowing a lot more immigration.

In other words one of the basic premises of anti-immigrant policies is nonsense.

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Re:Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Star... by collyw on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:46AM (#13866419)
Here is an interesting article on EU and non-EU immigrants to the UK.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/european-immi...

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