Trump laid out an infrastructure strategy for growth – Let's get moving and unite around it

After the longest and most controversial government shutdown in history, President Trump used his State of the Union address Tuesday to focus the nation on policies which can unite rather than divide us.

The president laid out a five-pillar strategy which included issues critical to the growth of the technology industry and the health of our overall economy: immigration reform, investments in technology and infrastructure, and curbing health care costs.

Specifically, he called for a “safe, lawful, modern and secure” immigration system. Our immigration system is broken, and for our economy to thrive we need to actively encourage high-skilled immigrants to innovate in America.

But reforming our immigration system to attract top talent doesn’t mean we can’t also protect our borders, and approving the president’s funding request doesn’t necessarily mean building a continuous physical wall.