Though I agree with much of what you said...
Our Nuclear program was a non starter without Einstien.
Our Space program would have taken a whole lot longer without Werner von Baun.
But - they became citizens. They were scientists and not waitresses.
Our Space program would have taken a whole lot longer without Werner von Baun.
I believe you need to revisit spellcheck: unless autocorrect was written offshore. ;-) ("Einstien"? "von Baun"?)
From my post #61 this thread: The US didn't make nuclear weapons in the 1940s by going for Third World foreigners: we snarfed up the Nobel Prize winners, back when that meant something.
We didn't send a man to the moon in the 1960s by importing a bunch of barely-English-speaking pagans who were in it only for a green card, but by relying on Patriotic Feeling. One of the few things JFK did right, besides Taxes.