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"Muslim ban" affected the ability for Iranians to immigrate. All of the top engineering/science schools in the U.S. lost an entire cohort of Iranian students t
by georgeburdell 8y ago
"Muslim ban" affected the ability for Iranians to immigrate. All of the top engineering/science schools in the U.S. lost an entire cohort of Iranian students this past year.
- jki275 8y agoFirst, there was no "muslim ban", and second the list of countries affected had been defined already by Congress years previous, not the President or the current administration. Also school visas are not immigrant visas if one wants to be pedantic about it.
- spiznnx 8y agoThere is an Iran ban, call it whatever you like. The existence of a list at a certain point in time doesn't mean anything if the current administration is the one that uses it in a policy it created itself. School visas are the foot in the door for young scientists and engineers to employment in the US.
- jki275 8y agoThey restricted immigration from countries who posed a threat. That threat was defined previously. You're being disingenuous in claiming it was motivated by religion. You're incorrect in stating it restricted legal immigration. It stopped immigration by countries deemed a threat to the security of the US by Congress and the previous administration.
- freeone3000 8y agoOh, come on, there was a given number of legal immigrants and now there are fewer because of a change in government policies, that's a restriction on legal immigration. You're arguing it's justified, but stating it didn't reduce legal immigration is simply incorrect. Because it did. I also don't think it's disingenuous in stating it was motivated by religion when the circuit court for Hawaii declared it was and 4 members of the supreme court agreed.
- shaklee3 8y agoCan you provide a source for that? I tried finding information showing a decrease in legal immigration, but couldn't find any statistics that were current.