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I mean, we won't educate the Chinese exchange students either. The US education system is increasingly diploma mills and sinecures for friends of public officials.
Trump's doing the "$5M Visa" gambit. He thinks he can announce "We're going to invite so many students! The best students!" and then slide in a mechanism for channeling kickback into his pocket. But no sane student is going to take him up on this deal. And no quality school is going to want students coming through such a program.
TIL that sinecure is a Latin word. In Russian it sounds a lot like "a place where you smoke something blue, or emitting blue smoke, or making you blue".
On the subject - the US still designs some of the most advanced things on this planet, so some people do get educated.
We're rapidly tearing all the wiring out of the walls. Just look at the dismantling of the CDC, the FAA, and NOAA. Mass arrest and deportation of some of the smartest and most talented people in their fields, because they aren't native born (or merely white enough to pass the paper bag test). Feds moving to block the trade of high end electronics or the construction of modern power systems and modes of transport. The sheer volume of financial scams coming on the heels of an enormous tech bubble, combined with mass layoffs across software, automotive, and agriculture sectors.
It's bleak, man. Real "you're a Russian landing your first job in 1989 Moscow" bleak.