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The smartest aren't uniformly distributed across the Earth.
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That's true. It is possible that the smartest 5% are all here in the USA. But it is statistically unlikely that's true.
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You put words in my mouth. I don't claim that the smartest are clustered in the USA.
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is your contention that this new process is too difficult for the smartest 5% in the world to figure out?
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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.
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The smartest 5% are able to figure out where they're not welcome.

https://yaledailynews.com/articles/international-grad-school...

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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.
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come on, don't do this here.
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