[chimera]

I don't know about those speculative articles. All I know is what I see, every day, working in the trenches. We've got more and more foreign nationals filling out the ranks in advanced degree programs, and fewer American students. There is a reason for that. Students aren't stupid. If their home country, its political and business leaders, value what they do and what they are learning to do, they will find employment in those fields. If not, if the persons who do those things are considered expendable, if those jobs are sent overseas or completely eliminated, then the students considering those fields will look elsewhere. There are any number of free traders who will applaud that and say, good, we don't need those things anyway, it behooves us to remember that history shows that others have had the same ideas ("La République n'a pas besoin de savants") and things didn't turn out too good for them. It wouldn't be the first time that a society devoured it's own children.

[dervish]

Why is an EU publication describing the brain drain to the US a "speculative" article and your experience of one definitive?

"We've got more and more foreign nationals filling out the ranks in advanced degree programs, and fewer American students. There is a reason for that. Students aren't stupid."

So just the foreign students who do not return to their home countries are "stupid?" Read the articles. The foreign graduates stay here.