But it's hard to just live a normal life in limbo, with all the implicit threats.
Do immigrants have in all cases a home country to go back to with a better trade-off in this regard than the United States? As long as some countries are sufficiently lousily governed, the United States will always have a ready supply of some kinds of immigrants. The article's point is correct that persons who are able to set up new businesses with new technologies probably have better capacity to shop for a country to live in than most migrants.
Do immigrants have in all cases a home country to go back to with a better trade-off in this regard than the United States? As long as some countries are sufficiently lousily governed, the United States will always have a ready supply of some kinds of immigrants. The article's point is correct that persons who are able to set up new businesses with new technologies probably have better capacity to shop for a country to live in than most migrants.