
The case for immigration
The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Importance of Immigrants in Education
In Ireland, a quarter of all startups are founded by foreigners. 18% of all fast-growing tech companies in the UK were created by immigrants. A US immigrant has an 80% higher chance of starting a business than a local native. These people set up businesses, they go out on their own. As you said, it's the fire in your belly, you're going to change the world. The diagonum was the biggest Ford factory in the world outside the United States after the Second World War. And loads and loads of lads from Cork went over to work in Ford because there was aFord factory in Cork as well. They came back to Cork every summer,. You remember
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