There are those who are asking the question (Quote): “Should the U.S. allow for more lenient immigration policies toward highly skilled workers?”

In other words: Should we in the US continue, yet again, to "except" our way further out of being a Nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity, and down into being nation based on "making exceptions", such as that in a "caste" system (caste: separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank, profession, etc. [or political expediency, "political correctness"], etc), and thus also continue further down into falsely claiming and pretending that much more to be a nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity?

If the answer is "Yes”, then why did we ever bother with our Revolutionary War to, among other things, separate ourselves from such systems where "exceptions" based on such things as "profession/skill level", etc., were the rule, and instead become a Nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity, where any child born here could grow up to be "President" and, until relatively recently, parents could educate their children as they saw fit, and nobody had to worry about the government making exceptions for people, such as that based on such as "skill level", etc?

Likewise, if the answer to the question at hand is "Yes", then what about the disincentive such "making exceptions" presents to the (as of yet) overwhelming majority of native-born U.S. citizens (including students), against their being and/or becoming "highly skilled", and indeed against their pursuing/completing any further education and/or training to become so?

 
Also, what about the further limiting effect on business/job market opportunities caused by such “exception making” for "immigrants" and thus, in the real world, consequently against native-born U.S. citizens, whether there may or may not be such as "an employer’s job market (more job applicants than there are jobs)" at times?

Now you should at least begin to see that if you would say "Yes" to the question at hand, you would not only be adding fuel to that diabolical fire of disincentive and unequal opportunities but you would thus also have us continue to move, yet again, that much further away from being a Nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity, and further down into being another nation "making exceptions" based on "profession/skill level, etc" which is exactly what, among other things, we fought our Revolutionary War to distinguish and separate ourselves from!

"We The People" are already shocked, amazed, and increasingly infuriated by such formerly unimaginable, Leftist/"progressive" political expediency-driven, public and national policy practices, efforts, and propositions which, when implemented, repeatedly "yield the fruits" of, among other diabolical consequences, the fact that such "social engineering", and the promotion of it, is essentially the "stock-and-trade" of Leftist/"progressive" politicians, and their allies in academia and the media, for the gathering and cultivation of masses of thus beholden, obliged, dependant, and/or otherwise allied voters, followers, readers, and viewers, etc.

So of course "We The People" should be infuriated and determined to the point of action to stop any more of such “making exceptions” so subversive to equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity, such as that in accordance with a "Yes" answer to the question “Should the U.S. allow for more lenient immigration policies toward highly skilled workers?”.