The majority of startup founders are immigrants[1], benefiting from the longtime American ideal that America welcomes immigrants. Smart potential immigrants can start companies in other countries.
[1]https://www.statista.com/chart/14065/countries-of-origin-of-...
What is the proof for it. Evidence shows that the US is one of the worst countries for 'moving up'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#/media/File:Th...
http://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/inde...
Moving up requires people from lower wealth backgrounds moving up and the evidence clearly demonstrates that the US is one of the western countries where this happens the least.
>Moving up requires people from lower wealth backgrounds moving up and the evidence clearly demonstrates that the US is one of the western countries where this happens the least. 1,000,000+ people annually immigrate. Clearly it's a terrible place for your family.
If you want to compare immigration figures as a measure of how great a place is then lets take the EU. The EU is roughly similar to the US in terms of GDP. In 2016 there was about 2,000,000+ immigrants from outside the EU to the EU suggesting that it's a more popular destination. If however we take a more realistic measure of net migration (migration as a percentage of population) then the US is 29th on the list behind many European countries but also such noticeably desired locations such as the UAE.
Migration are not a great measure of whether a country is a great place to move up through society.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
In your opinion which European country is best for startups?
What's really going on is that Californian tech companies have a very hard time getting American talent from outside California to destroy their quality of living by relocating to California.
What's left is the purposeful manipulative lie that foreigner talent is needed in the United States beyond whatever level of immigration is current. The lie part is that they really mean California, not the United States.
Disclaimer: that conjecture above is something I learned from a straight-talking American executive in Qualcomm ~14 years ago after relocating from Motorola Labs, outside California.
Those smart people come to America in part because of its multicultural society. You can come from India or Germany or Japan and live your life in the US (again, presently, but it's changing) much more easily than in other, more homogeneous countries.
That multiculturalism is what is being destroyed, to the United States economy's great detriment.
(The H-1B visa situation is orthogonal. Yes, the lottery system needs reform, and no America shouldn't be importing young mid-to-low level tech employees from abroad to lower the pay of other tech employees. But the war on immigration has a much larger arc than that. Sergey Brin's parents came to the US for its acceptance of immigrants and its values. THAT is what is being destroyed.)
>(The H-1B visa situation is orthogonal. Yes, the lottery system needs reform, and no America shouldn't be importing young mid-to-low level tech employees from abroad to lower the pay of other tech employees. Eliminate it already. The H-1B is massively abused by corrupt companies that exploit their workers and lobby to increase quota limits. The O visas have no quota, if they're exceptional people as these companies claim then use that.
>But the war on immigration has a much larger arc than that. Sergey Brin's parents came to the US for its acceptance of immigrants and its values. THAT is what is being destroyed.
As did Steve Job's parents. They came to America and became Americans, as it should be, and they also didn't over stay a visa or sneak in. Conflating those that do with those that don't is immensely dishonest. It seems like anything less than amnesty and open borders is a "war". It's all about exploitation, especially for the undocumented.
I'm not sure how they generated their list or numbers, but it does not seem well supported. I'm also unsure how they picked their 87 companies given that their are hundreds of companies with revenues north of $1 billion (which was their metric), that were of course all at one time or another just a twinkle in somebody's imagination.
[1] - http://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Immigrants-and-Bi...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_Sigma
Note that all of those came through Stanford or MIT. America's elite universities are hotbeds of immigrant talent that other countries would like to siphon off.
The current war on america's multiculturalism (in pursuit of votes and political power) threatens to deeply damage America's universities, and thus its tech economy.
This nuance is important.
Perhaps for you the distinction is important, but in terms of policy, there is no difference at all.
If you start kicking out all the people who are brown or muslim or otherwise different, you hurt the society and make it harder for the legal high-skilled immigrants to live here.
(Not to mention that for three decades American politicians and corporations encouraged immigrants to come here and work without status. And that Irish and Italian immigrants came here 100 years ago before there was any immigration law; if today's republicans existed in 1900-1930, they would have demonized Irish and Italians for votes too.)
As a brown person it's become abundantly clear that the Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon view on immigration is certainly mad about something - and it's not skill.