If immigration policy was like running a professional sports team:

1. Recruit the world’s best, young players.

2. Give them the best facilities and coaches.

3. Help them develop into an All-American or Five star Recruits.

Now you have a choice...

Choice 1:

Allow them to enter the draft and allow your favorite team (USA) who happens to have the #1 draft pick, to draft them.

Choice 2:

Send them to one of your rivals (China, India, Russia) who gets a little closer to winning b/c of them

Choice 3:

Stop recruiting ITFP

Right now, the US is training the worlds smartest kids and then sending them back to their country of origin to help them win - esp if that country is China.

We need to stop sending them back and increase Visas for highly educated kids (or stop recruiting them up front?)

No matter what, the current position makes no sense.

Corollary: 40% of the Fortune 500 are companies started by immigrants or their kids.

Corollary: if we go back far enough, 100% of everything was started by an immigrant who left a shittier team for the USA.

Go , Happy 4th

To be clear, I’m not suggesting 100% of immigration policy be run like this. We need a certain percentage for families and for refugees (I was one).

But I think whatever % we give to talent recruiting, it should be focused on winning long term and building a talent monopoly.