Your Cooperation is Greatly Appreciated

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5. In part, I don't disagree

It will absolutely cause a brain drain and will absolutely hurt the economy, maybe even permanently.
Regardless, 40% of the population won't care because they are, at least right now, being told that everything that is wrong in this country is because of immigrants and trans people.
Once upon a time it was Black people. Then Hispanic people. Then Asian people. Handicap people.
Its always someone else's fault. Most Americans do not have the deductive reasoning skills to figure it out. They are told "you now hate group X" and they do as they are told because that is the system working as intended.
That it hurts them, personally or financially or both, is all but irrelevant to them.

Never forget the SCOTUS case about an older couple fighting to get the mandate dropped from the ACA. Over the course of hearings the wife got cancer and became very sick and while it was literally before the Supreme Court they ended up having to file for bankruptcy due to medical debt.
She also later died because she wasn't getting the care she needed. Americans will happily work against their own best interest as long as they think the group they are told not to like will suffer more