>>>I'm not sure why US is so against getting more of the best and the brightest, meanwhile we are pushing to get more refugees instead.
It's easier to grow the underclass of economically-distraught refugees and keep them on the "Democrat plantation", just like they've kept black Americans for decades. Legally-immigrating, high-income naturalized citizens are probably more politically right-leaning than people assume[1]. That is counter to the objectives of the Democratic Party, who have been trying to create a de facto uni-party system at the national level via demographic manipulation[2].
It's easier to grow the underclass of economically-distraught refugees and keep them on the "Democrat plantation", just like they've kept black Americans for decades. Legally-immigrating, high-income naturalized citizens are probably more politically right-leaning than people assume[1]. That is counter to the objectives of the Democratic Party, who have been trying to create a de facto uni-party system at the national level via demographic manipulation[2].
[1] https://polisci.ucsd.edu/undergrad/departmental-honors-and-p...
[2] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/12/2020-elect...