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Title: Why Silicon Valley Wouldn’t Work Without Immigrants *Author:* Farhad Manjoo

*Source: *NY Times

*Date: *Feb 7, 2017

*Summary: *Last year, researchers at the National Foundation for American Policy, a nonpartisan think tank, studied the 87 privately held American start-ups that were then valued at $1 billion or more. They discovered something amazing http://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Immigrants-and-Billion-Dollar-Startups.NFAP-Policy-Brief.March-2016.pdf: More than half of them were founded by one or more people from outside the United States. And 71 percent of them employed immigrants in crucial executive roles.

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