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That he or she should not fall in love or marry an American while in the US?
orWhat is a foreign graduate student in the US supposed to learn from this? That he or she should not fall in love or marry an American while in the US? or That if this happens he or she should not go back to renew the visa ?
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> but I find these single cases to be ridiculous, because there are competent individuals in government who oft do what they're supposed to, even if the whole government mechanism appears corrupt and broken. Most likely there was a legitimate reason, and of course we only have one side of the story here, by an associate professor and his PhD student. You'll understand only when you face it. What legitimate reasons ar…
"What legitimate reasons are you applying to justify treatment of any or every person on the planet as potential threat" Because they are? Approximately zero risk, true, but slightly over zero. Its a pretty simple straightforward game theory problem. Whats the total aggregate sum of the trouble you'll get into by letting 1 out of 100 million terrorist thru, vs simply stamping "denied national security" on any random…
The current process acknowledges the fact that there will be a number of false positives, probably an order of magnitude higher than true positives - a class of people which the system aims to filter impeccably.
However, we should not forget about the sentiment this process brings about. It leaves a very poor taste and even hurts and insults a lot of people and the cost of losing those talent and taxes thereof could be manifold.
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Yep, but why would you want to live in the US now? Just look at it. Stay with us, mate.
Where do you live, where the government either isn't cooperating with the US or its allies or else doing its own spying and censorship, and isn't a corrupt, money-hungry beast? I might just pack my own bags and go myself. Assuming there are jobs for foreigners.
It's really a scary place to live. Surely IT jobs do pay well there though.
My taxes pay for the expensive university education of foreigners, without guarantee they can stay? Great.
Many, if not most developed countries do this. Don't be such a jackass. The idea is that these students enrich the university, and there's a chance they'll stay on as professors. Billions are spent chasing foreign students that can throw a football and you chose to save your rage for this?
I wonder if this is one of those vague "security" problems. It seems like if people get denied for normal stuff (overstaying, violating their visas, etc) they're told and can at least fight it a little. But when you get a black mark against you it seems like you get stuck in an administrative blackhole where nobody is authorised to tell you WHY or they themselves don't know. It was the same way with the no-fly list f…
> Americans don't want people visiting, working, or studying on their shores. This is utterly false and unfair. Please don't lump the entire US population with a few ignorant morons who have not seen the world five miles outside their home town. A quick look at our universities is proof enough that what you are saying is incorrect. The last time I visited MIT it almost felt like I was outside the US.
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This part is breathtakingly bad, but also largely subjective - we may never know what they really said...
If only we had records...
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Wikipedia says that Mandela co-founded Umkhonto we Sizwe. I welcome correction if they got it wrong, of course.
We have to assume that the author of the Wikipedia article is more informed than I am. I stand corrected.
I wonder if this is one of those vague "security" problems. It seems like if people get denied for normal stuff (overstaying, violating their visas, etc) they're told and can at least fight it a little. But when you get a black mark against you it seems like you get stuck in an administrative blackhole where nobody is authorised to tell you WHY or they themselves don't know. It was the same way with the no-fly list f…
> Americans don't want people visiting, working, or studying on their shores. This is utterly false and unfair. Please don't lump the entire US population with a few ignorant morons who have not seen the world five miles outside their home town. A quick look at our universities is proof enough that what you are saying is incorrect. The last time I visited MIT it almost felt like I was outside the US.
If anything I've been surprised at how consistently keen Americans are for high-skill immigration.
I wonder if this is one of those vague "security" problems. It seems like if people get denied for normal stuff (overstaying, violating their visas, etc) they're told and can at least fight it a little. But when you get a black mark against you it seems like you get stuck in an administrative blackhole where nobody is authorised to tell you WHY or they themselves don't know. It was the same way with the no-fly list f…
> Americans don't want people visiting, working, or studying on their shores. This is utterly false and unfair. Please don't lump the entire US population with a few ignorant morons who have not seen the world five miles outside their home town. A quick look at our universities is proof enough that what you are saying is incorrect. The last time I visited MIT it almost felt like I was outside the US.