I'd expect them to screw up much more often than they succeed. But if 25 people take a risk and found a company and 1 of them succeeds, that one company might employ 1000 people. The 24 failures may be worth it. That's leaving aside whatever useful services the company provides.

~20% of the world population of foreign-born people lives in the US. It's difficult to think that's unrelated to the fact that the US produces a disproportionate amount of global innovation.

Although, they already managed not to screw up US immigration (if we're being US centric here) which indicates they can figure out relatively complex problems, and have the drive to get off their ass and do something. Whether it was legal or not, for most people immigrating to the US is a huge pain in the ass.

I up-voted you though I don't think I agree with you.

I do think you have a valid question and shouldn't have been down-voted

Here's an interesting paper: https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-dozen-facts-about-immig...

> Immigrants are 4 times more likely than children of native-born parents to have less than a high school degree, but are almost twice as likely to have a doctorate.

> Immigrants are much more likely than others to work in construction or service occupations, but children of immigrants work in roughly the same occupations as the children of natives.