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>> that's the norm for people in my set. because there is an understanding that you are expected to achieve. you are given opportunity in america and you are expected to make it. and, again, i have numbers to back it up. nigerians make up less than 1% of the black population in the u.s. and yet in 2013 alone, 25% of the black students at harvard business school were nigerian decent. here's some more numbers for you, brooke. other a fourth of the nigerians have professional degree. only 11% of whites in america can say the same. so we are model minorities. so about this myth about africa living...

Science or technology feels badly in need of services, let's roll out the welcome mat. is that like pitting one group of immigrants, the model minorities, the kind we want, the kinded from plarp countries against for example these young people coming from war-torn and dangerous nations to the south? >> there is a propensity to go down that road. we have to be careful when we make that argument because the larger argument is that immigration is good economically. i think the economists on the right and left will agree with that. and yes, the high-tech immigrants do help our economy, but we also...