>America just doesn't attract (or retain) the best. Opportunities are quite high in other countries for them to consider American immigration nonsense. In a su

>America just doesn't attract (or retain) the best. Opportunities are quite high in other countries for them to consider American immigration nonsense. In a survey of scientists from 16 countries <http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-brain-trade http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...>, the US is the top destination from 13 of the 15 others and the #2 choice from the other two. If you are a Canadian scientist, there is a 16% chance <https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/37lgxg/the_global_brain_trade/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/37lgxg/the...> that you will move to the US. That's not "16% of all Canadian scientists that move out of the country move to the US". Let me repeat: 16% of all Canadian scientists move to the US. They're also likely to be among the top Canadian scientists, too.