It's a simple matter of math. The USA has less than 5% of the world's population. It's statistically impossible for that 5% to be the smartest 5% in the world. Therefore, if we want the smartest people in the world, we have to allow immigrants.

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hallole 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The smartest aren't uniformly distributed across the Earth.

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jedberg 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

That's true. It is possible that the smartest 5% are all here in the USA. But it is statistically unlikely that's true.

	▲	hallole 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You put words in my mouth. I don't claim that the smartest are clustered in the USA.

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jerkstate an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

is your contention that this new process is too difficult for the smartest 5% in the world to figure out?

	▲	jedberg an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No? Not sure how you reached that conclusion. I'm just stating that the USA needs immigrants if we want to increase our median intelligence because we can't possibly have the smartest people in the world born here.
	▲	ori_b 11 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The smartest 5% are able to figure out where they're not welcome. https://yaledailynews.com/articles/international-grad-school...
	▲	SpicyLemonZest an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The current American immigration process is not figure-out-able. As any immigration lawyer will tell you, there's strategies with higher or lower chances of success, but there's nothing at all like a roadmap which will definitely lead to permanent residency if you follow it well.
	▲	genxy 26 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		come on, don't do this here.