2 things:

First, Mason, why do you keep putting "study" in quotes? The OP doesn't work for CNN or FOX and did not seem to have some sort of agenda behind posting his findings. He strictly put out some numbers and unlike CNN and FOX explained exactly how he got the numbers. We all understand that you believe there's roughly eleventy billion FO's out there 121, flying around with an expired 3rd class medical, but let it go...based on most company rules, his numbers are relatively accurate.

Second, why would any foreigner, EVER, since deregulation want to come to the US to fly for an airline here? I'm sure most of us have heard what they make overseas, the shortages they have in pilots and seen the FA's walking behind them in the B terminal at IAD. There's no way we're going to get a flood of international FO's IF we have a shortage.