[skylan_q]

1) This can't be discovered through an interview, nevermind an immigration process. It would just be increasing the entire pool of people who might qualify as "top talent" or "average" programmers. The author raised the point that 3rd world countries probably don't have as high a proportion in their general populace of skilled labour as the US.

[oe]

We are not talking about 3rd world countries though? Most of Europe has as skilled programmers as the US, of which some would like to move to the US.