Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
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Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
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#2How this is happening, the exact trajectory of how much worse these things are (and its potential to worsen) is somewhat terrifying, especially when you consider the cavalier disregard and easy ignorance that this policy represents. I know classmates and colleagues and friends who are discussing, in their groups and communities, how to best help people stranded, whether or not vacations and returns to see ill family members must be postponed or canceled, and how future plans to stay, live, and work in the U.S., or abroad, must be changed.
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While it's been easy to think about many possible negative outcomes in the proceeding days, weeks, months, another subtle aspect of this policy's ramifications is how it weakens trust and faith in the concept of stability for future American policy — the likelihood of future government actions, executed with little to no foresight, warning, or serious consideration, with serious consequences. How this effects this country's current reputation as a place to study, travel, find work, and start families + settle down can't be understated.
Re: Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
#3Researchers in our lab at MIT are also under pressure. One cannot return home for fear of losing his visa and the other is potentially stuck abroad.
Re: Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
#4What's scary is the new immigration ban affects legal, permanent residents. US legal, permanent residents that have firmly rooted their lives in the US, only to be told they can't come home.
Re: Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
#5Please also remember to sign the petition, in addition to discussing it in the comments! 100k signatures is a lot, but not for HackerNews ;)
Re: Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
#6America, what you have done?
Good luck with this petition! Let's fight for an open world.
Re: Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
#7A friendly reminder from over the pond (that is Europe).
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392
You need to speak up now, or one does not know where this will end.
Re: Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
#8What's scary is the new immigration ban affects legal, permanent residents. US legal, permanent residents that have firmly rooted their lives in the US, only to be told they can't come home.
To me that's not an immigration ban then, it's a race ban.
Re: Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
#9What's scary is the new immigration ban affects legal, permanent residents. US legal, permanent residents that have firmly rooted their lives in the US, only to be told they can't come home.
This. I am from Turkey, and i will be nervous every passing day from yesterday on, watching news to see if Turkey is added to the list. I am still years away from naturalization, and it saddens me to think about relocating, after having left where i was born for a better and productive life.
Nobody chooses their birthplace, but these are the people that decided to make a change, and in a way that historically benefited the us.
Re: Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
#10America, what you have done? Good luck with this petition! Let's fight for an open world.
It's not America that did this it's a minority of America. The rest of us feel like prisoners in our own country when faced with this kind of complete and utter insanity.