"Highly-Skilled Immigrants"

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This is an issue on which I'm quite conflicted. On the one hand, I believe that multiculturalism should be pursued for multiculturalism's sake. On the other, and I dont have any data to back this up, but I have a feeling that so-called "highly-skilled immigrants" don't exactly come from the bottom of the social ladders of their respective country. As a result, not only do poor Americans have to compete with the well-off of other countries in addition to the well-off of their own, but impoverished countries are being drained of their own desperately-needed educated population. Anyways, these are just my thoughts on the subject. What do y'all think?

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It makes perfect sense for any country to want to attract the best of the best in any field.

Does it? That's my question. There are obvious benefits to this approach, but I want to know if they outweigh the drawbacks. You mentioned the brain drain some African countries experience; that's one of them. I also mentioned in my opening post how encouraging skilled immigration makes it even harder for natives who aren't born well-off.