Fallows gives a few examples:
Because 95 percent of the world's population lives outside U.S. borders, the majority of the world's talent will also start out residing abroad. But immigration has brought in a disproportionate share of the nation's creative talent. Half of the members of the National Academy of Sciences are foreign-born. America benefits from attracting more than our "fair" share. China has never won a Nobel Prize in the sciences; the Chinese-born scientists who received prizes were honored for work they did overseas, largely in the United States.