How does keeping bright people out make us great?

What’s the point here?

Is there an ideological point? We don’t want foreigners here, even if they are super smart?

We no longer care about have the brightest people in the world researching, studying and doing business in our country?

Or is it just about diminishing Harvard?

I don’t understand the end game.

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Doesn’t matter.

In every one of these whining threads you’ve done, people respond, you reject any arguments, and keep asking the same questions.

Meh.

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I don’t think I have posted a thread on keeping the brightest people in the world from coming to America to study and research and work.

If I did, I apologize.

There’s always an ideological point in there somewhere. My guess is that they don’t want to go full isolationist, and will make the argument that we currently aren’t letting in the “right” kind of foreign students. What the “right” kind are, IDK.

Keeping bright people out prevents them from voting R.

:rofl:

Let’s look at the drop of potential good while we choose to ignore the ocean of associated problems?

Now guess which the OP chose? :sunglasses: :tumbler_glass:

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What problems are you hoping to solve by forbidding Harvard from enrolling foreign students and hiring foreign professors and researchers?

From your article:

Here’s what to know as the Trump administration keeps attempting to put up legal barriers to international students’ ability to study in the U.S.

I stopped reading at that point.

Spoiler alert. Everything beyond that point will be LW spin.

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IOW:

If an article presents facts that make me uncomfortable, my cognitive dissonance kicks in. Here’s a camel…

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If past commentary is any prediction of future policy, the “right” kind are Norwegians.

If they aren’t smart enough to have the correct political opinions, we don’t want them!

:sunglasses:

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I’m not uncomfortable at all. I recognize a partisan screed for what it is. You don’t. Pretty cut and dried in my book.

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:sweat_smile: :joy:

You didn’t. He just doesn’t have it him to say anything bad about Trump so he made it about you.

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Obviously, you don’t. But then again, I wouldn’t expect you would be able to.

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Hmm,
1.1 million international students
some small part ofthem payingtuion of $38,000/year.

I dunno what it adds up to, but it doesn’t seem like good policy to me.

Should definitely draw a line between those who pay and those who slop out of the tax-funded trough and get free tuition.

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By far the majority of those brightest don’t remain in this country and contribute. They come, get educated in this country and then return to their home country.

Universities have become bastions of a LIB woke culture. Foreigners come to this country and spew their anti American rhetoric, their antisemitic rhetoric, etc…

They are guests in this country. They are here at our invitation. If they feel the need to spew hateful rhetoric, they can go back to their own country and do so.

The supposed brain drain we will experience is but a strawman argument.

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Citation needed.

I didn’t ask a political question.

How would a foreigner get tax payer funded tuition?

Thanks for answering btw.

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