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Despite the current crop of presidential nominees’ xenophobic obsession with limiting immigration, a new study shows that American business would take a major hit without the innovation that immigrants bring to its shores.

Recent research from non-partisan nonprofit National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) reveals that of the 87 American startups that are currently valued at $1 billion+, 44 of them (51 percent) were created by immigrants.