| I’ll fill in the gaps. I didn’t initially want to respond to that person because they are MAGA-brained. Basically, their whole comment is based on non-factual information. US is discouraging talent by revoking student visas, China is offering more funding and incentives while the US has flat federal funding with future cuts likely: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-europe-us-scientists https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-resea... China produces more research in top journals than the US: https://quincyinst.org/research/chinas-historic-rise-to-the-... The commenter claimed that there’s no ICE Gestapo, and that this administration is deporting criminals, but 74% of detainees have no criminal convictions and only 5% have any violent criminal record: https://www.cato.org/blog/5-ice-detainees-have-violent-convi... ICE told officers in a memo to disregard due process and the 4th amendment: https://apneas.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-... Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than US citizens: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG... More people are moving out of the US than moving in for the first time since the Great Depression: https://fortune.com/2026/02/27/trump-immigration-crackdown-w... https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-22/la-na-im... I have no link for this one, but it’s worth pointing out that educated immigrants likely have the most options on where they want to live. They’re not in the same situation as a day laborer hopping the border to the closest country that has work available. The US doesn’t have to be a bad option available for that kind of person to say “nah, I’ll go somewhere else.” It just has to be a less good option with enough negative aspects, and they’ll say, eff that, I’m going to find a position in Germany/Netherlands/China/etc. |