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Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students

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Re: Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students

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If you are a Republican and didn’t sign up for this, can you please write your representatives about impeachment? This is getting ridiculous. We’d be much better off with a president Vance.

The probability of impeachment succeeding at this time is effectively zero.

Impeachment of Kristi Noem could be more likely to succeed though.

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> When a University’s SEVP certification is revoked, currently enrolled international students must choose between transferring to a different institution, changing their immigration status, or leaving the country, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement website. It's crazy they're punishing tons of students who don't even have anything to do with these protests

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If you are a Republican and didn’t sign up for this, can you please write your representatives about impeachment? This is getting ridiculous. We’d be much better off with a president Vance.

The probability of impeachment succeeding at this time is effectively zero.

It’s zero if nobody actually says anything. The legislature has the power to reign in the president. They only have to threaten a bipartisan impeachment.

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As a staffer at Cornell and person who lives in the area, I worry most about losing students from mainland China. Whether this is an arbitrary Trumpism or the lid blows off in Taiwan matters little.

I heard University of Illinois bought a policy to protect against losing cash tuitions from Chinese grad students. Perhaps other universities have done the same.

> I heard University of Illinois bought a policy to protect against losing cash tuitions from Chinese grad students

Who's selling that policy?

edit: looks like they started this in 2017! https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/11/29/university-il...

That's some forward thinking!

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I heard University of Illinois bought a policy to protect against losing cash tuitions from Chinese grad students. Perhaps other universities have done the same.

> I heard University of Illinois bought a policy to protect against losing cash tuitions from Chinese grad students Who's selling that policy? edit: looks like they started this in 2017! https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/11/29/university-il... That's some forward thinking!

Hilarious if it's the CCP, who would probably have the greatest incentive to sell such a policy.

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If you are a Republican and didn’t sign up for this, can you please write your representatives about impeachment? This is getting ridiculous. We’d be much better off with a president Vance.

The probability of impeachment succeeding at this time is effectively zero.

Anything difficult is effectively impossible until you decide to begin working on it.

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So much for "law and order" - this is about sycophancy toward an authoritarian who chooses his own rules.

That's what "conservatives" mean by "law and order". You obey them so they can put you in your place. They want to impose upon the rest of us, not be imposed upon.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The probability of impeachment succeeding at this time is effectively zero.

It’s zero if nobody actually says anything. The legislature has the power to reign in the president. They only have to threaten a bipartisan impeachment.

Unfortunately I don't see a route where Republicans vote for impeachment, ever. They're already refusing to listen to constituents, hiding from their elected duties and letting Trump freely crash the economy on a whim.

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I feel US higher education, which brain drains the rest of the world, is easily one of the best strategic advantages it could have for the next 100 years. Let’s throw that all away because learning is liberal.

Waterloo, McGill, and U of Toronto admissions offices should be spending the entire day tomorrow calling the full international Harvard roster ASAP.
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