If America begins closing to foreigners, it will be in trouble.
Not to speak of the chilling effect that the awareness of rising xenophobia has on applicants, as well as the growing antipathy for all things American courtesy of the shrub.
Really sad...
And, on top of that, up-and-coming graduates like you and MfM give serious thought to emigrating for advanced study because of economic and political reasons...
I wonder how long it will be before the brain drain officially reverses. The massive outsourcing of white-collar jobs out of the US isn't making matters any better. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
The entire visa process is a mess out in California, and I can't stand Diane Feinstein. I wish Cindy Sheehan had decided to run against her. everytime I see Feinstein on "Meet the Press" or "Face the Nation," she spends an hour debating without actually saying anything important. Feinstein is like Hillary Clinton, but even more of a Republican-lite piece of garbage. I don't know why we can't get any strong, liberal Democrats to run in ultra-liberal California. The state is a lock for Democrats. If you win LA and San Francisco, you've practically won the state already -- and the Democrats always crush the GOP in those two cities. And yet we keep getting these weak-kneed Know-Nothings in the House and Senate. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
