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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Rudeski.

Thank you guys so much for being here.

I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend over the weekend.

And I hope that you, if you had a family member who served in this country and died fighting

this country, that you thought of them and someone

commemorated them in some way. It's really important sometimes to just take focus of those

people. So anyway, I want to talk about two important subjects because over the weekend and

into Monday, I got into a bit of a Twitter spat.

There's a guy named Alex Stop.

He's the co-CEO of the Institute for Progress.

It's a nonprofit think tank that researches industrial, technological, and scientific progress.

And shockingly, as surprising to no one who has heard of a group like that, they advocate

for mass legal immigration.

And in a tweet, Alex said 44% of people who founded unicorn businesses were immigrants.

Now, unicorns for those who don't know are businesses, their startups that are valued at more than a billion dollars.

And he presented this chart of 531 companies between 1997 and 2019,

where a thousand and seventy-eight people were, were, had founded it or co-founded it, and

44% of them were immigrants. Now, here's what the pro-immigrant, especially pro-unrestrictive

immigration side does.

They say the word immigrant, and they kind of let you do the work in connecting the dots of where those immigrants come from.

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