If we’re going to talk about this, let’s be clear… Dame Sarr and others will be fine if they haven’t been posting about Death to Israel and whatnot. The failure to protect the Jewish population at Harvard is what this has been all about.
My question would be who is making these determinations and how can it be an objective process. Seems incredibly ripe for abuse, and will almost certainly have a profound negative effect on the demand of international students for American universities.
People in universities and in the State Department have been making these decisions all along. It’s always been ripe for abuse from within and without.
Thanks for your unbiased opinion.
We had an interview when entering the US from Europe on Saturday. First in a long, long time. It was friendly, but inquisitive.
Uh no. This is about demonstration of power, and attacking higher education, including research, because of political views presumed there.
And exclusion of the "other" whether they be immigrants, foreign students, or whoever in one person's mind doesn't belong here. As a Jewish person with strong Jewish identity, I can say that the need to combat anti-semitism, while a real thing on a lot of college campuses, is being used as an excuse for all sorts of attacks on higher education and the people within it. Teaching and learning.
Because we all know social media posts are all completely legit and authentic and real. I simply can't imagine a fan of say, Alabama, creating a burner social media profile of an international Auburn player and putting all sorts of anti-Israel and/or anti-Administration stuff on there to try to screw up said player's ability to get a student visa . . . What an absurd thing this is. But this is our country.
I don’t believe the fight against anti-semitism on campus is only a pretext, but I’m sure I won’t convince you. In any case, I’ve been happy that Duke has able to avoid most of the anti-Semitic ugliness.
I don't know if it depends on the point of re-entry or whether you have Global Pass, but our recent experience was different. We returned from a three-week journey around Scandinavia and the Baltic on May 15th. When we disembarked the flight from London at Orlando International Airport, it took us less than 10 seconds to step in front of the Global Pass scanner and get the green light to proceed, after which the Passport Control officers simply smiled and waved us through with a cordial "Welcome Home" greeting.
I can assure you that this is luck of the draw, though of course you look like a genial, law abiding family. Don't assume this geniality entering the country, though for people of our age and ethnicity, it is typical.I don't know if it depends on the point of re-entry or whether you have Global Pass, but our recent experience was different. We returned from a three-week journey around Scandinavia and the Baltic on May 15th. When we disembarked the flight from London at Orlando International Airport, it took us less than 10 seconds to step in front of the Global Pass scanner and get the green light to proceed, after which the Passport Control officers simply smiled and waved us through with a cordial "Welcome Home" greeting.
Maybe we just don't look as sinister or suspicious as some folks . . . .
Did they ask you how many minutes Darren Harris will play this year?
Post of the thread!!!
Leaving aside the potentially political aspects of the discussion, which it seems folks have already agreed to disagree on, Dame Sarr and others may not actually be fine, at least in the short term.
That assumes that foreign players still want to come to the USA. I could see that changing.
