There are also immigrants who came to America who started businesses using their wealth from their home countries, like my in-laws who are literally revanchist

There are also immigrants who came to America who started businesses using their wealth from their home countries, like my in-laws who are literally revanchist counter-revolutionaries in exile. Immigrants as a class are the most highly-resources people among the population of their home country, even if they are relatively lower status in the place they arrive.