Immigrants Make America Great

40 percent of all Fortune 500 businesses can directly or indirectly trace their beginnings to somebody that immigrated to the United States.

America would not have been possible without immigrants. Immigrants not only helped build what Ronald Reagan once famously called a “shining city upon a hill,” but they have sustained it. And no amount of anti-immigrant rhetoric will change that.

Immigrants, regardless of status, introduce specialized skills. For example, some of America’s most profitabl…