Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester

Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by eli_gottlieb on Saturday January 28, 2017 @07:22PM (#13510687)

I agree, and that's what I have to say to my former (I graduated) coworker. I'm very much inclined to pack bags, ship my possessions, and leave this country myself. If this is how this government behaves one week in, violating human rights and the Constitution already, what can I expect as a minority who was born here?

And what about the people I know without second passports? Should a certain friend refuse to visit China with her parents because Trump might decide to ban her (with an American passport!) from returning home over some spat about trade policy?

The Department of Homeland Security should have refused this order.

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Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by nerfhammer on Saturday January 28, 2017 @08:14PM (#13511004)

> Trump might decide to ban her (with an American passport!)

Trump can't do that. That would take something way beyond an executive order.

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Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by ocschwar on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:27PM (#13544075)

Given that Steve Bannon actively wants us in a shooting war with China, I'd say your friend should make up Plans B,C,D and E immediately.

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Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by WildUtah on Saturday January 28, 2017 @07:29PM (#13510729)

A patriotic American can simply renounce a foreign passport.

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Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by sveme on Saturday January 28, 2017 @07:45PM (#13510820)

Some countries do not allow renunciation of their passports.

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