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Immigrants’ impacts on entrepreneurship are not restricted to the Fortune 500 list. Indeed, 80% of billion-dollar startups have a first- or second-generation immigrant as a founder or senior leader.
First-generation Mexican immigrants to the United States were found to have lower incidences of mood disorders and substance use than their bicultural or subsequent generation counterparts. [20] [21] Similarly, immigrant youth in general are less likely to engage in risky behaviours and substance use, including alcohol and marijuana consumption ...
HIV/AIDS entered the United States in around 1969, likely through a single infected immigrant from Haiti. Conversely, many new HIV infections in Mexico can be traced back to the United States. People infected with HIV were banned from entering the United States in 1987 by executive order, but the 1993 statute supporting the ban was lifted in 2009.
Between 1970 and 2007, the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States quadrupled from 9.6 million to 38.1 million residents. [9] [10] Census estimates show 45.3 million foreign born residents in the United States as of March 2018 and 45.4 million in September 2021, the lowest three-year increase in decades. [11]
The top ten metro area destinations for immigrants are a mix of big cosmopolitan cities, tech hubs and college towns. Immigrants are moving to these US cities Skip to main content
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By 2000, [clarification needed] 23% of scientists with a PhD in the U.S. were immigrants, including 40% of those in engineering and computers. [9] Roughly a third of the United States' college and university graduate students in STEM fields are foreign nationals—in some states, it is well over half of their graduate students.
African immigrants to the US are among the most educated groups in the United States. Some 48.9 percent of all African immigrants hold a college diploma. This is more than double the rate of native-born white Americans, and nearly four times the rate of native-born African Americans. [32]