In fact, an estimated 30percentt of the small business growth over the last two decades was driven by immigrants -- and immigrants are more than twice as likely to start a business as native born Americans.
More than the fact that immigrants have a lower crime rate than native born Americans, the "Trojan Horse" narrative is dangerous because it contributes to bigotry and hate crimes, misdirects national priorities, and importantly, makes us less safe by obscuring the more significant threat of gun violence in America.
Nidal Malik Hasan, is a native-born American.
In fact, the author of this American legend was not a native-born American at all.
It was the first play by a native-born American to be professionally staged.
To have squelched a good idea so quickly and for so long was surely an overreaction (the man charged in the Fort Hood killings is a native-born American).
"If someone comes in with a strange-looking dish that smells fantastic, some of us are curious," said the marketing manager, Carol Ann Thomas, 33, a native-born American.
About the years between then and now she was insistently vague, pushing aside questions about her past in an English so minimally accented she sounds like a native-born American, even though she moved here only 10 years ago.
To justify opposing immigration, the blog concludes, you must attach at least 20 times more weight to the well being of a native-born American than to a Mexican.Such calculations will not trouble America's politicians, who are busy trying to solve the "problem" of illegal immigration.
The case involved Abdullah al-Kidd, a native-born American citizen who was held under harsh conditions for 16 days in what the government said was an effort to make sure he would be available to testify at the trial of another man.
