America’s Great Advantage

Prosperity 

If you ever doubted Donald Trump’s intent in aggressively enforcing against illegal immigration, you probably don’t anymore. Donald Trump, unlike Joe Biden, has been faithfully and aggressively executing laws pertaining to immigration policy for America.

Now comes the hard part. How does America continue to attract hard-working, talented people from all over the world?

Along with being the land of the free/home of the brave, as Francis Scott Key penned, America has long been regarded as the place, more than any other country in the world, to reward innovation. A quick glance showcases Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang. As James Freeman points out in his WSJ column, an immigrant has led perhaps the world’s most valuable corporation to the heights of global technology.

Thank goodness, given the potential of the technology to solve problems and the rewards of continued U.S. preeminence. 

According to Huang, who was born in Taiwan in 1963: 

 “When he was nine, he and his older brother were sent as unaccompanied minors to the U.S. They landed in Tacoma, Washington, to live with an uncle, before being sent to the Oneida Baptist Institute, in Kentucky, which Huang’s uncle believed was a prestigious boarding school. 

In fact, it was a religious reform academy. Huang was placed with a seventeen-year-old roommate. On their first night together, the older boy lifted his shirt to show Huang the numerous places where he’d been stabbed in fights. “Every student smoked, and I think I was the only boy at the school without a pocketknife.” 

In the interview, Huang explained to Mr. Freeman that his roommate was illiterate. In exchange for Huang teaching the roommate to read, the roommate taught Huang how to bench-press. Huang eventually did a hundred pushups before bed every night. 

Long after most people have forgotten the political mediocrities who staff much of official Washington, they will be enjoying the fruits of U.S. entrepreneurship.