And I agree. I am not trying to be contrarian, but our country (though sinking) is still the preferred citizenship destination spot in the world. Let's use that fact to our advantage, not our detriment.
Your idea of limiting people imports to only the very most educated and talented works until the politicians get a hold of the rulemaking.
Soon the chicken feather plucking industry will demand people be allowed in from North Korea since the very best chicken pluckers are from that country.
All sorts of Americans have a need to import people and that is why we have the mess we have.
We are importing millions of people each year and yet we have around 100 million people capable of working who are not working.
The mess was created by our politicians, both democrat and republican, and since they created the mess it is doubtful they will fix their mess.