The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report reveals that immigrant entrepreneurs are an essential source of job creation. The report found that minority-owned startups create more jobs than startups by white Americans, because the latter tend to be one-person firms.

According to the Center for an Urban Future, immigrant entrepreneurs have emerged as key engines of economic growth in our cities. In New York City, for example, the borough of Queens—known to be a magnet for immigrants, has become a leading source of job creation.

When discussing the potential of immigrant entrepreneurs as an engine for economic growth in our troubled economy, Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Harvard and Business Week columnists, said that immigration reform is essential for this immigrant entrepreneurial spirit to continue and expand. The solution, he said, is not to increase the number of working visas, “we need more green cards.”

These findings clearly show, as U.S. News reports, that when figuring out a way to stimulate our economy, “smoothing out our complicated immigration system is a stimulus policy in itself.”