[anonporridge]

One of America's secret sauces is that everyone in the world is welcome to defect from their home regime and come here. Hell, there's even a chance we'll make your children our leaders (Obama and Harris for example). And you personally have a chance to start a business and become a billionaire or advance up the corporate ladder to CEO of existing giants.

The inverse is not true.

The best and brightest Americans (regardless of race) can never effectively defect to China. Maybe if you're ethnically Han Chinese your children will have a chance to be fully integrated and accepted, but definitely not if you're any other race.

The gravity of best and brightest migration is still one way into the American singularity.

[TameAntelope]

We’ve substantially curbed immigration into the US, so I wonder how that might affect this “secret sauce”.

[yakz]

Have we? With the exception of 2020 due to the pandemic, how much has immigration declined?

[TameAntelope]

Oh I guess we haven't, that's good. Looks to have more or less steadied out over the past decade or two. [0]

[0] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/ann...