> "...we issue H(1)(b) visas every year to allow
>scientists and engineers from other countries to
>emigrate into this country to help us out.
>Annually, it is in the neighborhood of 100,000
>each, and usually that quota is used up well
>before the end of the year. We are importing
>scientists and engineers, asking them to emigrate
>to this country for this purpose. Clearly, we are
>not producing enough of our own. [...] when we
>visit our grad schools, graduate education in
>mathematics, science, and engineering, we find
>that, in general, over half of the students are
>from other countries. Our students are not able
>to compete for grad school entrance with students
>of other nations."

I obviously didn't read this the same way you did. To me, this is just pointing out that our higher education system is great, good enough to attract people from all over the world to come here to study, but our primary and secondary education systems are crap, because our OWN students can't compete with foriegn nationals at this level in their own country. Unless there's more to this quote that you didn't post that really drove the xenophobia issue home, I'd be more inclined to think the speaker was merely pointing out the fact that the US primary and secondary education systems need to be vastly improved.

-- Dave