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Re: Academics locked out by tight visa controls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Mon Sep 20 15:05:43 2004
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:50:18 -0400
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>, cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net,
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:03:57AM -0400, John Kelsey wrote:
| >Academics locked out by tight visa controls
| >U.S. SECURITY BLOCKS FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS
| >By Bruce Schneier
|
| I guess I've been surprised this issue hasn't seen a lot more
| discussion. It takes nothing more than to look at the names of the
| people doing PhDs and postdocs in any technical field to figure out
| that a lot of them are at least of Chinese, Indian, Arab, Iranian,
| Russian, etc., ancestry. And only a little more time to find out that
| a lot of them are not citizens, and have a lot of hassles with respect
| to living and working here. What do you suppose happens to the US
| lead in high-tech, when we *stop* drawing in some large fraction of
| the smartest, hardest-working thousandth of a percent of mankind?
Those people don't get a vote. The politicians in question will be
dead and gone before the slope of the curve changes anything. Why
*would* we discuss it?
Adam the cynic.
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