It's been my view for awhile that although we should have a merit-based system, we should not permit any professionals from third-would countries to stay here permanently. They can get an education here, but then need to go back. It's immoral for us to snap up their best people.
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The problem I have with that is then you have a system where people are coming here and benefiting from our systems and not paying the country back that provided them this. Why should Nigeria benefit from the US education system. Particularly when space is limited.
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If foreigners pay full tuition, and they get in on their own merit and no preference is given them, then it upgrades the average quality of students at our colleges, gets them money, and increases prospects of disadvantaged countries. That's all good.
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How does it upgrade the quality of students at our colleges? It doesn't, there is limited space at colleges, you are by definition taking a space away from an American..thanks Pelosi...JK
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Take a random college where SATs average 600. If the foreigner has a 700 SAT, average quality of that college is increased. If the college is selective, that'll bump one student to some other college, perhaps improving average quality of that college. /1
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Or look nationwide. Something like 4 million students enter college each year. Some colleges have difficulty enrolling enough students and are at risk of failure. If we admit 200K a year that are smarter than average American students, that 5% boost is a good thing.
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I don't want to shield American kids from foreign competition. We need to compete globally, so I want American kids to work hard in high school, fearing otherwise they'll lose out to some asian kid. I want them to work hard in college for same reason.
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filling our colleges with Asians and keeping out our own citizens is not helping our citizens compete against Asians.
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There are many people named "Mohammed" in Oslo these days. Does the USA want some of them?
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we’ll take the top 5% in IQ testing provided they can sit in a room for twelve hours with a naked jewish woman eating pork and drinking beer while being lectured about the evils of islam
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Well, fair enough but the point here I think is that most immigration advocates pose as defenders of small, poor and vulnerable countries. While their policies only worsen those countries.
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will the last brain to leave HAITI please turn out the lights (assuming the electricity is working).
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These people can come up with anything....boggles my mind. There's no "moral quandary" its called national interest and its in the best interest of our nation's people to only bring in people better than us (richer, more educated, healthier, more motivated)
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It has always amazed me how almost none of the immigration advocates think about this - the braindrain and middle class flight that, for example, Central and Eastern Europe has experienced since becoming EU member has been disastrous for our countries. None will talk about it.
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When higher-wage and lower-wage countries are grouped in the EU, you have a terrible brain drain:https://www.politico.eu/article/doctors-nurses-migration-health-care-crisis-workers-follow-the-money-european-commission-data/ …
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His 4th 'clear truth' isn't true. If 1-3 are true, Ppl shouldn't be 'free' to move to other countries. They can ask, but that's it. They should be free to try to change their own country for the better, & we might help. But yes, people like the Norwegians are the moral choice!
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A somewhat parallel: The Left ought to acknowledge ‘race realism’ (e.g., race-IQ connection), as it would arguably strengthen their arguments (if you accept altruism as moral axiom) for welfare & foreign aid. Qua Rawls, we *have* to help X, because they were born with low IQs.
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"If there’s a sudden spike in the supply of labor for, say, computer coding, and the same demand, then that will depress wages for that labor." I couldn't read anymore from someone who's apparently slept through the last two decades, or has never heard the phrase "H1B".
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Apropos, I recently looked into the IAB brain drain data set; and Haiti is the third most brain drained country in the world, with rates above 80%.pic.twitter.com/ysO6YbgMoD
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