Innovation comes from educated, hard-working immigrants–not genius dropouts

So they surveyed a subset of innovators that had won national awards and are now claiming that this represents most innovators? Also, isn't "innovator" a pretty loose term?

As a lazy immigrant.

Immigrants in any country are extremely diverse.

The thing to understand is just because you are an immigrant doesn't mean you are hardworking or innovation.

The fundamental argument is much more simpler - labor moves wherever they see the most opportunity for their work.

And for a long time that has been the United States.

Its the same argument that I would apply in reverse. I see a lot of college educated liberal arts major working at coffee shop - these people would be extremely productive in lets say china - where there is shortage of people who are good at liberal arts - just like there is a shortage of software engineers in silicon valley.

Freedom of labor is what you really want - it would make the world a much better place.

Isn't a simpler explanation that innovative people have unique experiences, or experiences outside the norm? Immigrants, college dropouts, people with parents from other countries, people with learning disabilities etc, etc, all have different life experiences from the norm, thus they see things differently and have the ability to come up with different ideas (innovate).

>More than a third of those surveyed were born outside the US—a much higher percentage than in the general population—and another 10% have at least one parent born in a foreign country.

You mean like the guy in the hero image with the caption, "The exception, not the rule."?