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Proposing a flat correlation between willingness&ability to pay and human capital might seem attractive from the worldview of a right-wing American, but is it true? Anecdotally a part of the high-HC people who migrate to the US are far less desperate than your median Mexican - grad students who are willing to try it because it's the slightly more attractive option, businesspeople who are willing to give it a shot because they are frustrated with taxes and regulatory burden at home, et cetera. At 100k, you for sure would have priced out me and approximately everyone in my PhD cohort (most of us got offers in other countries too!), while if Mexicans can actually cough up 10k to pay a coyote (I would've already tipped towards the UK at that price point) then probably the difference to 100k can be made up by many by precommitting to do some crimes stateside.
(edited-in afterthought) Trying to get better-quality immigrants by imposing more on all immigrants is similar to those guys/girls who think that they can get high-quality partners by treating all their suitors terribly ("if you can't handle me at my worst..."). It might work to some extent if you can coordinate meanness with all your competitors (though even then it will breed resentment), but if you can't you will just attract the sort of people who can't do better or don't see anything wrong.
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