They won’t of course, and I cannot phathom why anyone would think that as well. It’s just not going to happen. Get a grip people.
What WILL happen is those highly sought after highly educated people will just work in their home country. Honestly, why come here, with all this hatred towards immigrants?
This has been happening for 20+ years in semiconductor. The amount of design work now done in India, rather than in Silicon Valley by Indian immigrants, is amazing. Half my team is in Bangalore.
We are dismantling our entire research pipeline and infrastructure. We are actively hostile to immigrants. We are literally destroying our own future, and half the country is happy.