I am with you when you bring up Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy,” an unjustly neglected film about America’s inglorious future, in your discussion of the country’s neglect of international talent in its immigration policy (“Help Not Wanted,” April 12, 2008). Indeed, the situation is getting progressively worse, especially since September 11, 2001. Bright foreigners are shunned like lepers. But I am not with you when you hint that Europe may benefit from America’s policy bungle. When it comes to immigrants, Europe is even more closed than America, and the situation is unlikely to change for the better in the years to come. The only beneficiaries I can imagine under the circumstances are the emerging economies, such as China, India, Russia, and Brazil. Given their rapid growth, they will need bright foreigners, too. But Mike Judge’s exercise in futurology had better be applied to Europe, as well. The European Union is a model idiocracy, after all.