Can you knock off the straw man arguments? Not wanting my taxes to be wasted isn't a valueless point just because I'm one of many taxpayers, or because the US doesn't compensate Germany when a German-educated person moves to the US, or because education is worth money to someone, or because money is wasted elsewhere, etc.
If the US taxpayers' investment in foreign students who may not end up staying here is a net benefit to US society and that benefit has been reasonably maximized, then I'm all for it. Otherwise I'm not. When a foreign student is given a nice education at taxpayer expense without so much as granting them a green card on arrival to increase the odds they'll stay here, I suspect that taxpayer money is being wasted, even if the return of educating foreign students is positive on net.
If the US taxpayers' investment in foreign students who may not end up staying here is a net benefit to US society and that benefit has been reasonably maximized, then I'm all for it. Otherwise I'm not. When a foreign student is given a nice education at taxpayer expense without so much as granting them a green card on arrival to increase the odds they'll stay here, I suspect that taxpayer money is being wasted, even if the return of educating foreign students is positive on net.