Research shows that many immigrants to the United States are prodigious job creators. This supports legislative battles to increase the number of H-1B visas for foreign workers.

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In 2014, companies applied for 172,500 H-1B visas. This means that at least 87,500 engineers, developers, and others couldn't take jobs in the United States. As one would expect, this is a political hot potato for industry executives as well as U.S. labor and worker rights groups. The key arguments against H-1B visas are that H-1B workers drive down wages and take jobs from Americans. Actual statistics show that immigrants are more than twice as likely to found a company as are native-born citizens. They started 28 percent of all new U.S. businesses in 2011, despite accounting for just 12.9 percent of the total population. And in Silicon Valley, the percentage of new companies started by foreign-born entrepreneurs was a remarkable 43.9 percent during 2006-2012.

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