We should probably eliminate at least 50% of student visas. I would start with the all the Chinese grad students myself as most don’t stay and thus it makes no sense to educate the competition
Looks like they’re running some AI agent to try and match foreign students to social media accounts. If the US State department doesn’t like the politics of the posts the visa is being revoked. The thing is everyone in the US is protected by the constitution, not just citizens. So this is overturning fundamental rights to free speech and due process.
There is no way for these students to contest this. Many people don’t put their full name on social media, often people have the same name. So not only will this violate students first and fifth amendment protections, it will likely be applied to students who simply share the same name or are confused with other students who expressed a political view the government doesn’t like.
If this program continues it means that no foreign student in the US is safe from arbitrary deportation. All it takes is someone making a bot pretending to be that student making posts the administration doesn’t like. Since there is no process by which the student can even demonstrate the account is fake!
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8-7-2/ALDE_00001262/
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Or you could be aware that there’s massive strategic and cultural advantage to having foreign students coming to learn in your country. You get to sell them on your culture, language, model of working. If you believe in a nationalist competition between countries you what their best people to come study, work, and research in your country. You win the talent war.
This wasn’t my experience in the physics dept I was in. They all spoke Chinese and thus all obviously stuck together. The vast majority left. The universities benefit by getting extra money. I didn’t see the other benefits you describe. We will be just fine without educating wealthy Chinese who simply want to return home