REPORT REFUTES NURSE BRAIN DRAIN ARGUMENT

REPORT REFUTES NURSE BRAIN DRAIN ARGUMENT 

By Atty. Greg Siskind

The Council of Foreign Relations has released a report that discusses how protectionist US immigration policies hurt the country. The report discusses many issues including arguments that US immigration policies lead to "brain drains" in developing countries that need to retain talent. The report does note that there are some legitimate concerns about Africa, but there are no concerns with the Philippines, the country that sends the US more than 90% of its foreign nurses (compared to fewer than 5% from African countries):

But there are also examples where migration has produced positive
incentives for sending countries to invest in educating skilled workers.
The Philippines, for instance, which sends thousands of nurses around
the world, has developed an impressive system for educating nurses to
meet that demand; the result is that, though many trained nurses leave
to work abroad, many have also stayed at home, leaving the country
with more nurses per capita than Great Britain.