Americans have won 40% of all Nobel Prizes ever awarded – immigrants accounted for 35% of those winners (George Mason University).
40% of all Fortune 500 companies were founded or co-founded by immigrants or their children, employing 19 million people and generating revenues of $4.8 Trillion (Partnership for the New American Economy).
Source: New York Times, Sept 2 2017.
“Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt” EXODUS 22:21