And what if the people with the envelopes start killing the people that are not taking the envelopes? This is a very populist fascist idea, and a very bad one. The corruption is already illegal, all that is missing is proper enforcement.
A very dangerous idea. How would they determine who to charge or how to prosecute them? This is a setup for authoritarian purges of opposition officials.
If he did, he would let Harvard bring in all those smart Indian and Chinese kids, train them and then keep them here. That is what forward thinking leaders do. Who needs more doctors, chemists and engineers running around thinking.