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> Some have been tortured.

Any reputable news sources for this?

It's (arguably) against site rules. It doesn't gratify ones intellectual curiosity and is something they'd cover on the news. There's a large uptick in political content this year, and I agree US news is crazy right now, but this site requires posting discipline or it'll become no different to a subreddit.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I agree, and an article on tech brain drain to Europe would be interesting! But the worst thing for HN is that it becomes another Reddit, full of posts about US politics and comments about political views with no substance.

The site rules explicitly say news articles are not things we should post.

I was an immigrant in the US (J-2) and agree this is an issue, just not one for HN.

Any examples? I'd agree that is bad, yes - except if it's excessively shared and Dang is linking to the main conversation.

What's intellectually stimulating about a professor being deported? I'm not denying it's an issue, it needs to be voiced somewhere, but is a tech forum the place?

The rules:

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I think in general this site avoids political news unless it's directly related to tech. While I agree the US politics is mad right now, it doesn't "gratify one's intellectual curiosity".

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

> There are hundreds of cases of people having issues with their paperwork when coming back in the US

The article suggests they have all their documentation and, after being detained, a court said they must not be deported but was deported (against the courts orders) anyway.

Do you have some sources that suggest it was due to paperwork issues?