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To: nightlight7
It's good for the country to have 'brain drain' flowing our way.

Not if you are an American wanting to earn a decent living and feed your family.

317 posted on 03/04/2016 7:21:05 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
Not if you are an American wanting to earn a decent living and feed your family.

If I'm reading Trump's position correctly then if he is elected and he tries to tax Ford for building cars in Mexico then all Ford would need to do would be to build the plant in El Paso, bring in 5000 Mexicans on H-1B and H-2B visas to staff it, pay them dirt wages, and Trump would be saying, "See? I forced Ford to bring jobs back to the U.S."

318 posted on 03/04/2016 7:27:09 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: central_va
Not if you are an American wanting to earn a decent living and feed your family.

He is talking about attracting and keeping the individuals of exceptional talent and value here. That's how USA beat Germans and Russians in creating first nuclear weapon, then later Russians in the space race.

Solid state physics of semiconductors and computer architecture developed in 1940s-50s by the same generation of European refugee scientists and engineers (von Neumann, Behe, Wigner, etc; mostly from Hungary, Poland and Germany) was the basis for computer revolution that followed from 1970s. Or electric power and radio technological revolutions which started from the beginning of 20th century were creations of another refugee, Nicola Tesla from Balkans.

It's good for all of us if the best and the brightest from the whole world end up here.

The creativity of each such individual ends up generating far more jobs than that one position such person would "steal" from one American (who may not exist in the first place). Keeping them away is penny wise and pound foolish.

348 posted on 03/04/2016 9:25:55 AM PST by nightlight7
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