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You're ignoring the fact that the selection of immigrants is not random or a representative set.

If you're right and that an immigrant has to work "ten times harder" to apply for a job, then surely the immigrant population represents a. It would be a damning indictment of America if these people were not more successful than the average citizen - and if you look at the data, they're just a few percentage points ahead of median white people.

And Nigeria and Ghanian immigrants were cherry-picked because those two groups represent largely first and second-generation immigrants, who still largely have wealth and prosperity to go around from these original highly-qualified applicants.

(Also, why do you capitalize white? Usually it's just white-supremacists who do that, so you might want to reconsider your choice.)



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