So what you’re saying people will look around and say “my country sucks so bad that I will pay the enormous cost of moving around the world” and this will create political instability in those nations?

Perhaps it is not the fault of the nation who provides the immigrant his new home, but rather the fault of the nation who made his old one so bad he wanted to leave?

But certain regions will benefit more than others, and the USA cannot turn a blind eye to the political and economic instabillity that their policies create. To do so would be phenomenly stupid

But even if emigration is harmful to the migrant’s native country, I don’t think that justifies forcing him not to migrate. People are not the property of their governments. They don’t have an obligation to stay in their home countries in order to benefit their countrymen.

Millions of Americans every year move from state to state in search of economic opportunity. No doubt my native state of Minnesota was unhappy when, after 8 years of education at state expense, I took a job on the East Coast. It’s probably unfair that Minnesota taxpayers paid for my education and then didn’t receive the benefits of my taxes. But I don’t think anyone believes it should be illegal for me to leave Minnesota. People ought to have a right to seek economic opportunity wherever they can find it.

They do this because the supply of residencies is limited artificially. Many of these individuals are not just med school grads, they are full blown practicing doctors who want to come to America, but we require them to re-do much of their training.

We are explicitly turning away (by mandate) thousands of DOCTORS who wish to come here and practice medicine. We are artificially limiting the supply of doctors in a time in which medical costs are skyrocketing. Does this sound like a good idea?

“Everyone in the US, or everyone in the world? Aren’t we doing the rest of the world a long-term favor by arbitrarily limiting our share of the brain drain?

Whose utility are we maximizing here?”

Well, foreign countries often benefit from the discoveries and inventions of immigrants who ply their trade in the freer US environment. We usually invent new things to sell them — and those countries like to buy new things.

Everyone in the US, or everyone in the world? Aren’t we doing the rest of the world a long-term favor by arbitrarily limiting our share of the brain drain?

Whose utility are we maximizing here?

On the one hand, I feel for American tech workers who have their jobs shipped overseas, or who cannot find work here. However, the benefits to the American economy of foreign talent is obvious.