America Doesn’t Need ‘International Students’: From 9/11 to Chinese Spying to the Hamas Campus Riots, They’re Just Not Worth It; Why Do Elite Universities Take In Students Tied to Foreign Foes? Money, of Course

America Doesn’t Need ‘International Students’:

From 9/11 to Chinese spying to the Hamas campus riots, they’re just not worth it.

There are over 1 million foreign students in the United States. The largest group by far are Chinese students whose numbers have fluctuated between a third and a quarter of a million. These students are in America to gain training in this country, not only at top universities like Harvard, but at tech companies, before taking their knowledge and skills back to China.

Saudi Arabia, the tenth largest source of foreign students, had the single most famous foreign students of any country who didn’t win any Nobel prizes, but did successfully fly passenger planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, but didn’t quite make it to the White House.

Despite that, the Saudis continue to send tens of thousands of their students to America.

With Bangladesh in 13th place, Iran in 14th, Pakistan in 16th, Turkey in 19th and Indonesia in 22nd, a lot of foreign students come from the Muslim world and were involved in the pro-terrorist riots calling for the destruction of America, Israel and all of Western civilization.

Notably, few of America’s foreign students are westerners. No European nation even shows up in the top 10 countries for foreign students. The UK is in 15th place and France is only in the 20th. Only Canada, right across the border, is in the top 5, but accounts for only 2.6% of foreign students. Nigeria accounts for three times as many foreign students as France, Iran sends more foreign students than the UK and Pakistan far more than Spain. While most American students who study abroad go to Europe, European students are not going to America.

International students are mostly non-westerners and that’s by design. The Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, after extensive lobbying by Ivy League colleges, began bringing third world students to America to counter Communist influence. Beneficiaries included Barack Obama Sr and Shyamala Gopalan, the mother of Kamala Harris, along with other radicals, who found positions in the United States and left behind radical children who undermined America.

Whatever benefits we may gain from foreign students are more than outweighed by 8 years of Obama and by the destruction wreaked by the wayward children of other ‘international students’. And those benefits are at the heart of the debate taking place right now.

Outrage and protests followed the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students. America, we were told, would be absolutely lost without those 1 million foreign students.

According to NAFSA, the Association of International Educators which promotes foreign students, foreign students contributed $43.8 billion to the U.S. economy. NAFSA did not mention its support for nearly $1 billion in federal subsidies for “international education” appropriations.

We are told that “international students” pay their way, but that’s not actually true. --->READ MORE HERE

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DAVID MARCUS: Why do elite universities take in students tied to foreign foes? Money, of course:

Harvard and other top schools admit many Chinese Communist Party nationals, raising concerns about influence on American leadership and policy

For centuries, the traditional role of elite universities like Harvard has been to train the next generation of leaders in every field of endeavor, to hold before them an open door to power and influence. So why on Earth are we holding that door open to communist Chinese nationals?

I had a good friend in high school, sharp as a tack, double legacy at Yale, graduated Harvard Law and by 30 she was at the State Department. The joke was, "Don’t piss off Becca, she can pick up the phone and have you killed."

The point here is that, for better or worse, and it's often the latter, graduates of top schools are meant to create a class of people who lead the country, who lead its industries and sciences, who stay at the Princeton Club in midtown, and wear their college ties.

A top American degree opens up a world of the powerful that most Americans don’t even know exists, much less ever interact with. Yet thousands and thousands of communist Chinese nationals are invited to this table every year.

Why?

There may have been a time when this influx of foreign students could be seen as exerting informational power around the globe, the idea being these students will go home and spread the gospel of democracy, free markets, and blue jeans.

But let’s not kid ourselves, these scions of Chinese Communist Party members who pay their way at Harvard aren’t going home and creating movements for democracy in Beijing, not if they want to make it to grad school alive and well.

In fact, we are the decided losers in this informational power exchange, as not just the Chinese, but Qataris, and 10,000 Iranian students for good measure, bring ideas and attitudes that undermine American foreign policy to the doorstep of the very people who will implement it.

This brings us back to the question: Why are we doing this? Why are we training our foes and giving them access to the inner corridors of American power, and I’m sure nobody will be shocked that the answer is money. --->READ MORE HERE

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