This is what is so funny to me about the h1b conversation. They're claiming these are the "best" of other countries.
Why would an elite in a country like india choose America when they could go to China or an EU country like the Netherlands who are actively investing in tech, education, and its a place where they know their kids won't get murdered in a school shooting? Why would they go to a place where the cost of living can go up dramatically because the leader has decided an ally is now an enemy? Why would they move somewhere where the cost of living is so high, that the money they are making is getting eaten up by rent which the government will allow landlords to keep raising?
The chauvinism from magats and conservatives in general is comparable to north Koreans. Kim stans in NK legitimately believe that they are the true korea and that the rest of the world is a garbage dump. The worldview of conservatives is that immigration is a form of charity and the people being allowed in aren't being brought in as cheap labor or skilled labor. They literally believe that any poor person comes to America, does nothing and gets hooked up with housing and free shyt indefinitely and their quality of life is superior.
That blindness to reality keeps them from understanding that the only thing that america offers these people is more money, but that additional money doesn't matter if it's getting eaten up by the cosf of healthcare, gas, tuition for their kids, rent, and groceries because the government is deporting the workers that keep wages and therefore prices, low.
Donald Trump does not know what he's doing and rather than surrounding himself with experts, he's surrounding himself with sycophants. He has no actual understanding of economics, emotional intelligence or strategy because his whole life he has gotten his way by always having more money than the people he's negotiating with. That doesn't work in democracy, so he's trying to shape America into the same kind of structure as a typical company. What this means is that like a CEO, he would be an authoritarian that decides policies based on what he feels like and cuts entire departments to save money while transferring the savings to the managers and investors.
He's literally doing corporate restructuring except to government employees right now.