ICE Revoking Students' Immigration Statuses Without Their or the Uni's Knowledge
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If stuff continues as is, USA will have $1T car company for 350M people, $2T company for search and online ads for 350M people and $3T company that tells tablets and phones to 350M people.
How is this going to work really?
USA is going to be fine overall I guess, the country has huge land and plenty of resources and some of the greatest talent out there but do you really want to change your economy in such a way? It will be painful, you will lose all your unfair advantage. I guess a fairer world is a good thing but why are you doing it?
That's because so many of the talented people from here want to stay and so many talented people from elsewhere want (and are permitted) to come. Both are subject to change.
If the US is going to break these agreements, other countries will decide that our IP is not worth protecting. All they need to do is revert to the laws they had before TRIPS and free trade with the US.
It's not just the tech industry. It's movies. It's pharma. It's biotech.
This will economically ruin us.
I would agree that IP protections have gotten out of hand, and that shorter copyright would be beneficial.
But it's not beneficial when some country will decide that our drug patents are worthless because we attacked them with tariffs.
And the Phase X safety and efficacy trials, which comprise the bulk of pharma development costs?
Say what you want about the downsides to the current pharma development model, but those companies are highly incentivized to be as efficient with their pipeline spend as they can. And they're pretty damn good at it.
In contrast, if you use government-selected allocation, you'd turn pharma development into military procurement.
The more reasonable approach would be to enter cost-sharing agreements, where the government paid for a share of critical stages, in return for getting certain rights if the drugs were successful.
Do you think a government-administrated drug development program would be more efficient than private industry?
The dozen or so people it would make sense to ask this question to likely will not read this comment. There hasn't been democratic input to the economic policy of presidential candidates since reagan (bernie sanders aside, barely). We might be highly rated on the international index of democracies or whatever but I can't say I've ever been able to vote about economic topics that mean anything to me.
The USA is not highly rated in the democracy index relative to what should be its peers, always hovering between 20th-30th position depending on the index. Uruguay and Costa Rica ranks higher as a full democracy than the USA.
> Samah Sisay of the Center for Constitutional Rights told Zeteo that one’s visa being revoked does not mean that their status would be too. Unlike student visas – which are entry documents that allow someone to enter the country – student statuses are what allow people to stay in the US. To maintain one’s status, a student has to fulfill certain requirements, like being properly enrolled in classes, keeping documents up to date, and following work restrictions.
It’s the fact that the institutions e.g. Congress, Judiciary are not able or willing to push back. And so we are seeing retribution for First Amendment activities e.g. protests being widespread despite it being clearly unconstitutional.
Project 2025 was right in that if you flood the zone the system won’t be responsive enough to stop you.
Even worse, the population at large seems or acts indifferent.
that dominance is ending now, because of the cruel whims of one man. none of this is based on rules or process. it's the exact kind of fickle brutality people come to this country to escape. the entire thing is like cutting your nose off to spite your face.
I'm seriously asking. Protest, write letters, call legislators, donate to legal organizations?
It feels like you can be doing all of this and it's not enough.
When china used to disappear people for politics, there was a lot of gloating about how the west is better, America is better.
But is there any difference any longer? America is so close to a fascist single party that is just doing things by dictatorship and zero accountability or transparency. What is the difference?
Do you remember that China only allowed its dictator to rule for 10 years and that the current dictator/sycophants removed that term limit?
Do you think America is on the same trajectory where the 4 year term limit could be amended via politics and coups? Like the one attempted on Jan 2021?
Does it? Because the white house has been retaliating against any press that doesn't show them in a good light - like Associated Press.
Nobody in power in other western countries seems to be batting an eye publicly about it. Yet they bat quite a bit about Uyghur genocide (but not too much either, since EU depends a lot on Chinese trade), etc.
Seems like a free pass, due to wanting that sweet US military HW or "protection", or whatever other sociopathic considerations.