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It's unpopular because it's ignorant, uninformed, and actively harmful. To add to the rest of the comments, accepting and enrolling international students in o
by stouset 1y ago
It's unpopular because it's ignorant, uninformed, and actively harmful.
To add to the rest of the comments, accepting and enrolling international students in our university system confers enormous benefits to this country. We drain the best and brightest from the rest of the world to come here, participate in our economy, start businesses, make research breakthroughs, start a life here, and teach future generations.
This is unambiguously good. It does not come at a cost to Americans, but is an inarguable boon which serves as further fuel for our continued global economic dominance. Willingly sacrificing this advantage is so profoundly stupid and self-destructive it beggars belief.
- dboreham 1y agoMost Americans never visit another country (save for immediate neighbors) and so probably aren't aware that having paying foreign students at universities is very standard everywhere in the developed world.
- richwater 1y ago[flagged]
- stouset 1y agoWhat secret American intellectual property is being openly disseminated to university students? If your concern is educating people here and not doing absolutely everything possible to make them feel welcome and invited in order to convince them to stay here, I fully agree with you. Something tells me that is not your position.
- CamperBob2 1y agoGee, perhaps we should encourage smart people to relocate here, then, instead of kicking them out at the drop of a (red) hat.
- gs17 1y ago> Until they go back home Many international students want to stay in the US after graduation. Getting the visa to allow it is the hard part, they're forced to go back. The "profoundly stupid" part is putting so much effort into giving someone a world-class education and then demanding that they don't use it for the betterment of our country's economy.
- like_any_other 1y ago> This is unambiguously good. It does not come at a cost to Americans, but is an inarguable boon which serves as further fuel for our continued global economic dominance. Are you sure? China is doing the exact opposite and their country is developing explosively.