> But solution point 1 — brain drain the rest of the world — is an absolutely first rate policy. The fact that the US requires newly-minted PhDs educated here to get a different visa or leave is absolutely self-defeating. We should be welcoming skilled immigration from everywhere.

At what quantile of an R1 does graduate education become something other than a visa scam? What domestic student is going to toil for years for poverty-level wages? The further pursuance of policies that are turning research institutions into immigration scams is a bad idea.