Us online tuition move hits foreign visas • Hacker News Board

Re: Us online tuition move hits foreign visas

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Post by thatfrenchguy » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 5:13 PM UTC

snapetom wrote: post #2

This is a punch right at China. https://www.statista.com/statistics/233880/international-stu...

I mean, China just has more people. If you look at per capita numbers, China has barely 2x the number of enrolled students as France (and the US is not really a target market for french students).

Re: Us online tuition move hits foreign visas

#32

Post by dzonga » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 7:25 PM UTC

simple pandering by the current us gvt. student visas are cancelled, rolls into h1b. n no more of those dirty liberal immigrants. n then you can parade how strong you're against china.

Re: Us online tuition move hits foreign visas

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Post by farone » Wed, Jul 08, 2020, 7:56 AM UTC

lolsal wrote: post #26

madaxe_again wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a dumb move if you see the impact on the students as a bad thing. If you want to make the US an unappealing place to emigrate to, and thus drive down immigration and please your nativists, then it’s a smart move. Based on the way the wind blows in US politics, this is a smart move. They could be even smarter, and once they’ve got the students out of the country, terminate their courses. There’s no way they’d eve…

I _really_ appreciate your comment. I was initially reacting in a very knee-jerk and emotional way because I personally see this as a Bad Thing® as it does not align with my values and my wants for my country (US). Your comment made me think about it from a different perspective. It saddens me to think that you may be right - that this may be deliberate - but you made me at least acknowledge that it might be the unfo…

Your cosmopolitan “values” of celebrating global human labor trafficking are simply a means to exploit the global working class.

For most working Americans, and effectively many foreigners as well, global human labor trafficking is an objectively bad thing.

Re: Us online tuition move hits foreign visas

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Post by lolsal » Wed, Jul 08, 2020, 9:37 PM UTC

farone wrote: post #33

lolsal wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I _really_ appreciate your comment. I was initially reacting in a very knee-jerk and emotional way because I personally see this as a Bad Thing® as it does not align with my values and my wants for my country (US). Your comment made me think about it from a different perspective. It saddens me to think that you may be right - that this may be deliberate - but you made me at least acknowledge that it might be the unfo…

Your cosmopolitan “values” of celebrating global human labor trafficking are simply a means to exploit the global working class. For most working Americans, and effectively many foreigners as well, global human labor trafficking is an objectively bad thing.

Can you explain how my "values" celebrate global human labor trafficking?

Re: Us online tuition move hits foreign visas

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Post by farone » Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 1:43 AM UTC

lolsal wrote: post #34

farone wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your cosmopolitan “values” of celebrating global human labor trafficking are simply a means to exploit the global working class. For most working Americans, and effectively many foreigners as well, global human labor trafficking is an objectively bad thing.

Can you explain how my "values" celebrate global human labor trafficking?

That’s what comprises the overwhelming amount of immigration to leading western nations. And it’s what governs, lobbies, and votes for pro-immigration law.