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James Talarico: “Half of all Fortune 500 CEOs are immigrants.”

Featuring: James Talarico, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 50

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Published | Video Starts at 48:36

We're hurting ourselves. And then I'll go one step further. Those immigrants go on oftentimes to create jobs. Half of all Fortune 500 CEOs are immigrants. A quarter of all entrepreneurs are immigrants. The research shows that immigrants and their children have a higher economic mobility rate than native born Americans. So these are strivers, they're dreamers, they're doers. (48:36–48:41)

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