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Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com)
In a potential threat to future U.S. innovation, new international enrollment at U.S. colleges is down for the first time in more than a decade, according to a new report. From the report: It is the first hard sign that the Trump administration's rhetoric may be frightening away some of the world's best and brightest who traditionally have been drawn to settle and work in the U.S. Why it matters: "The Chinese whiz kid, if he can find a way to America, he'll come here. If you're good, you can make a lot of money," Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, tells Axios. "That whole set of incentives has always been tied to the immigrant stream, and we're severing that connection." By the numbers: The findings are from the Institute of International Education's annual Open Doors report and its smaller joint "snapshot" report on international enrollment. It found that new international student enrollment dropped by 3.3% for the 2016-2017 academic year, and by a far higher 6.9% in the Fall 2017 semester.
Good now maybe the American students can actually start learning as there are fewer bad accent Teaching Assistants...
You are correct. The US was utterly insane, loong before Trump.
I mean that whole "Redirecting travelers to Guantanamo Bay because $prejudice" literally put you on the same level as North Korea, Stalin's Russia and that other country in Europe that used to put certain groups very tightly together in some kind of storing area ... I have it on ze tip of my tongue...
Hyperbole aside, do you have actual non-biased facts to support any of that?
* "ending DACA", when you likely don't know the size and scope of that program.
* "who want to aggressively deport" - you mean following existing laws? Seriously, if the laws are a problem for your idea of where immigration should be, how about changing the laws? It doesn't do well for the justice system when you arbitrarily support and/or ignore a law based on ideology.
* "false statements"? Like what?
* "wants to bankrupt us" - unsupported hyperbole at its finest. How much would it cost? Compare it to how much we (as a government) spend on far more frivolous things.
I'm steering well clear of partisan bias here (I voted 3rd-party if that tells you anything.) Please try to do the same, and even better, try to discard the overheated propaganda - especially the obvious stuff.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?