[notworthmyjob]

Putting it another way, you are advocating leeching off of the educational systems of poor countries to save the USA a cost that it rightly owes its citizens regardless? Which is going to be spent anyway, regardless of whether that USA student later becomes an employed taxpayer?

In any case, this position only makes sense if you think people are a fungible, replaceable commodity. It does not address the parent's comment at all, which is about culture.

[serge2k]

If you can add taxpayers who are already passed the point where you spend huge amounts of money on them then you win. So if you can snatch up people straight out of undergrad into high paying (highly taxed) jobs and have them contribute as young single workers then you should do it.