Bavarianborn Levi Strauss manufactured clothes. Hessianborn Adolphus Busch brewed beer. And today. immigrant innovators still populate the cutting edge. Moscowborn Sergey Brin helped found Google. Taiwanborn Jerry Yang founded Yahoo. Frenchborn Pierre Omidyar founded eBay. And Hungarianborn Andy Grove founded Intel. America remains a nation of immigrants. More than 33 million people living in America were born abroad. More than 9 million came to our shores just between 1990 and 2000. Since colonial times. immigrants have been vital to the American economy. Their skills and their labor have made our companies. our industries. and our economy more competitive. Some immigrants come with little more than their strength and ambition. They become our economys machine operators. factory workers. farm laborers. and service workers. But many come with masters and doctorate degrees.
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