From HuffPost 2013:

"As U.S. lawmakers argue about the economic effects of immigration on the country, they might as well consider that a lot of America’s most profitable companies were founded by people born elsewhere.

3.6 million workers around the world in 2011 and were responsible for more than $1.7 trillion in revenues in 2010, according to the Partnership For A New American Economy.

Those job-creation tendencies aren’t unique to a few success stories. A 2012 report found immigrants as a whole are more than twice as likely to start a business as someone born in America. With that comes job creation: as of 2011, immigrant-run businesses employed one in 10 American workers. That’s nothing to laugh at.

Here are 16 started by immigrants:

Google, AT&T, eBay, Radio Shack, Kohls, Comcast, Big Lots, Yahoo, Nordstrom, Colgate, Sara Lee, Goldman Sachs, DuPont, Kraft, Pfizer and Proctor & Gamble.

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” - Emma Lazarus