They ARE needed in their home country, that's why they're here. The fact is simply that the best way to help their family is to make American money

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carlosjobim 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Good to hear that their home country doesn't need any engineers, doctors or other specialists.

Then it makes sense that they go to help the USA develop to that same level.

A nuclear engineer surely improves his country much more by sending home some money to his mommy and aunts than by building a new power plant.

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Synthetic7346 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I can't tell if this is a troll post or intentionally obtuse. The comment they you replied to did say that these are the best in their country, which is why we want them. Have you heard of a concept called brain drain?

	▲	carlosjobim 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, I have heard of brain drain. And people here are arguing in favour of brain drain rather than hiring citizens or paying citizens better, because they say that US needs these foreign workers. That's why I ask how it comes that their own countries do not need them? Why should anybody be sympathetic to the so called "needs" of US companies hiring immigrants, but not be sympathetic to the needs of their home countries? Sympathy for companies is usually conditioned on the fact that they give jobs to locals, or at least to citizens. If they're not doing that, then who gives a fuck if they aren't able to expand or profit at a rate that shareholders prefer? But there is a class of people - most hackers included - who have had such comfortable lives that they aren't capable to even pretend anymore to sympathize with the producing class.