By Rajini Vaidyanathan
BBC News, Mumbai
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It is a stark contrast to a study conducted in the 1960s of Indian students who had left for America.
India's weak infrastructure, corruption and red tape were all cited as reasons why the 6,000 students studying in America back then did not want to return to their homeland, according to the 1964 study by Mehdi Kizilbash for the Comparative Education Review.
The return of highly skilled and educated graduates might be seen as a boost for India, but it is also a concern to America. Some 52% of Silicon Valley's startups were founded by immigrants, according to research conducted by researchers from Harvard and Duke universities, and retaining this kind of brainpower is a priority for President Obama.
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"Today, we provide students from around the world with visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities.
"But then our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or a new industry here in the United States. Instead of training entrepreneurs to stay here, we train them to create jobs for our competition."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13595196Mexicans, Nigerians, Caribbeans, Indians now all choosing not to stay in America ... finding greener pastures at home. We'll finally have succeeded in outsourcing even consumers, and there will be nothing left.