Re:MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:29AM
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Look at any county by county map showing who voted for who in a presidential election in the last 20yr. The cities lean left. Where are the universities with graduate programs big enough to attract substantial foreign interest located? Mostly cities. So who gets hurt by this policy the most? Places (and people) who lean left.
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Re:MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
by as300 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:36AM
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This is ignoring the many state schools in those states which attract tens of thousands of international students each year
Re:MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:43AM
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True, it's a messy policy (like any other broad brush federal policy) and he's throwing a lot of his own supporters under the bus.
Re:MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
by mprovost on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:01PM
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Looking at the map of results from the 2016 election in Indiana (where I went to college), the state was solidly pro-Trump but you can easily spot the blue counties where IU Bloomington (Monroe) and Notre Dame (St Joseph) are located. The only other counties where Hillary won are Marion (Indianapolis) and Lake (basically a suburb of Chicago). Tippecanoe county (Purdue Univ) is pink and went for Trump with 49%.
This indicates that even in a "red state", the university towns with lots of international students are already voting left and hurting them with this policy probably wouldn't affect the outcome of the next election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...