Americans Won't Like Hearing The Real Reason That Silicon Valley Is Pushing So Hard For Immigration

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42. An objective of the foreign student programs was to train leaders for developing countries

The idea was that developing countries would send us their best and brightest, they would get great US higher educations, and then they would go back to the country of origin to form the political, managerial, and professional cadre to assist in their country's development. It probably didn't work that well for scientists and engineers, since the sending countries didn't have the business infrastructure to make use of them when they went back. A lot of times they wound as bureaucrats in some government institution.

Obama's father would have fallen in that category. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama,_Sr.

Keeping them here sort of defeats that "foreign aid" objective of the programs. However, it wouldn't apply to places like India or China or many of the other countries any more.