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Immigration Creates Jobs  Floor Speech  Location: Washington,
D.C.  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight a report just
released by the Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research
group, regarding the contributions of immigrants in the 25
largest U.S. metropolitan areas. The report makes official what
we have known all along: Immigration and economic growth go
hand-in-hand. That's right. Immigrants boost economic
productivity and create jobs.  This has been true throughout our
Nation's history. It's been true during boom times and during
tough times. It's true yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Immigrants help our economy. Cities with a growing proportion of
foreign-born workers have ``well above average economic
growth.'' Immigrants expand the labor and consumer markets and
fuel growth.  In my home State of Colorado, immigrant workers
and business owners have added billions of dollars and tens of
thousands of jobs. The usual suspects will cry we l