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Which is why foreign student visas are being handed out in greater numbers, right? Right? Oh.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/international-student-enroll...

For decades the US has managed to be the most powerful economy in the world while taking in tons of these immigrants. Rejecting them is likely to have a negative impact. Xenophobia comes at a cost.

Wow. Powerful statement.

Now, for those same decades was the US also using gas powered cars and coal fired plants? Sounds like we need to continue using those too!

Also, wait till you see how badly the Canadian economy is poised to collapse: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile.php?story=20...

In that same time period we discovered global warming and ocean acidification as well as developed better ways of getting power.

The only downside we've discovered for having an accepting immigration policy is xenophobic backlash.

I don't know what point you're trying to make with that article. Less immigrants is causing hardship for their higher-ed system. How does that make your point?

>Poor economic refugees from unstable countries.

Like... Almost every single European during the XIXth and XXth century?

You think the Germans and Italians and whatnot were all educated middle-class who moved to the US because it seemed "fun"?

I just realized: isn't "rags to riches" THE defining myth of the USA? The very thing that separates it from every other "shit" country on Earth?

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