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If they care so deeply about non-citizens maybe they should pull a Caracalla move and grant citizenship to everyone in their empire?

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Or at least the refugees who are well qualified rocket scientists.

Your obsession with rocket scientists raises some suspicion.

Your suspicion of people mentioning rocket scientists in a Space X post raises some suspicions.

Yeah, these from Iran, North Korea, China and Russia should get hired first.

To be fair among people with appropriate qualification, there are many more americans who think USA is an "evil capitalistic empire" than immigrants who would support in any way the country they have escaped from.

Also Soviets got lot's of technologies from communist sympathizers in US, but in the end that did not help them much.

So letting SpaceX to handle its trade secrets the way it wants, and hire whomever it wants, is the best way to go.

By the time Caracalla gave everyone citizenship, roman citizenship was a burden and not the same heavily sought after thing as before. American citizenship is still extremely heavily sought.

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