Not a good take. These individuals have the choice of where to go. What should we say? You can’t come?

Also - don’t forget that many immigrants (both high and low skilled) send money home. This can improve outcomes over time in their home countries.

Finally... ignoring a language barrier, what’s stopping you from moving to one of these countries? If you have valuable skills and they are suffering brain drain, you can potentially help.

If you don’t want to or if that sounds ridiculous, now you understand the position of a high skilled resident of one of those countries