This is sad for the US. But I do wonder if, on the whole, this is a good thing. I've always wondered if the US's largest "foreign aid giving" is not the actual measly sum of money it gives, but rather just kicking out high-skilled workers, sending them back to China, India and elsewhere.

I imagine it's a boon for those developing countries. Instead a natural brain-drain, the country doing the draining is stopping it. I'd love to hear some stories about entrepreneurs who wanted to come to the US, but had to go elsewhere and ended up building large businesses. I do see a lot of cool startups coming out of India (that we use for our startup, like Chargebee and VWO) - I wonder if they would have been tempted to start them here in the US if it were trivial for entrepreneurs to enter.

Perhaps a rare case of the road to heaven being paved with bad intentions.