Unless Congress reforms our immigration laws to allow the entry of more foreign-born physicians it will become more difficult to visit the doctor of your choice.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is once again warning Congress that the U.S. needs to improve its education system and allow more foreign-born scientists and engineers to work in the country.
Among those who competed with Team USA in the London 2012 Olympic Games were more than 35 foreign-born Americans according the U.S. Olympic Committee.
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Silicon Valley executives, who have long pressed the government to provide more visas for foreign-born math and science brains, are joining forces with an array of immigration groups seeking comprehensive changes in the law.
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Per capita income there is 26 percent below the national average, and 27 percent of its residents are foreign-born, more than twice the national average, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the state has seen its population of foreign-born residents more than double since the year 2000, and half of those newcomers are believed to be Latino.
In fact, Milkman says, studies show foreign-born workers are more receptive to joining a union than the native born.
In Phoenix, more than 70% of the foreign-born population is from Latin America.
In nine states, the foreign-born population has more than tripled since 1990.
Foreign-born scientists are more than twice as likely to win a U.S.-based Nobel Prize as their American-born colleagues, and are overrepresented in the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
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More than 140 languages are spoken there, and more than a third of the population is foreign-born.
Demand for top tech talent also has prompted the industry to lobby the State Department to give out more H1-B visas to highly skilled foreign-born immigrants.
The number of foreign-born players in the major leagues has more than doubled since 1990.
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Now, the homeless are more likely to be younger, with a family and foreign-born.
More than one quarter had at least one founder who was foreign-born.
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In fact, it was clear that the U.S. environment played some role in the trend, since foreign-born children who had lived in America for more than 10 years were three times as likely to develop allergic diseases as those who spent less than two years Stateside.
They found that the foreign-born kids who lived in the United States for more than 10 years had a higher prevalence of allergies than the children who had only been in the country for a couple of years.
In a recent study, the Partnership for a New American Economy, a bipartisan coalition of more than 450 mayors and business leaders, found that in 2011, foreign-born inventors were behind 76 percent of all patents awarded to the 10 most productive U.S. research universities.
Worst off are foreign-born Pakistani and Bangladeshi men, who are around three times more likely to suffer unemployment as white men of the same age and level of education.
One in five residents was born outside the U.S. The city attracted the second-highest number of new, foreign-born residents in the first decade of this century, after the more populous New York.
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Gregory Rodriguez, of Pepperdine University, has found that by 1990 more than half the households of American-born Latinos and about a third of those of foreign-born Latinos were middle-class, in the sense that they owned their own homes.
Alan Manning and Andreas Georgiadis of the London School of Economics crunched data to show that British-born Pakistanis, or those who immigrated as children, are more likely to have foreign spouses than those who came to Britain as adults.
America has the largest foreign-born population by far an astonishing 43 million people, 10 million more than the entire population of Canada.
Unless this changes more U.S. multinationals such as General Electric, Citibank and Chrysler will find themselves with foreign born CEOs.
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