Really?
Even after all that has happened, Democrats don't know that we need to be more careful about who we let in? No, they don't and they are angry that we will be more careful.
CNN helps whip up the anger with a sad tale:
When Adefemola Akintade learned that the Trump administration had suspended the processing of foreign student visas, she immediately went blank. “I don’t know what to do; this is something I’ve always wanted for the longest of times,” she told CNN, still with an air of disbelief.
The Nigerian journalist has been accepted into Columbia Journalism School for a master’s degree and was on the cusp of applying for her US visa. “I don’t have any backup plan,” the 31-year-old said. “I put all my eggs in one basket – in Columbia… which is quite a risk.” She is due to start her degree in New York in August having already paid a hefty enrolment fee.
I assume that she is a very smart woman, and highly interested in journalism. Shouldn't she remain in Nigeria so she can help her country to rise out of its perpetual third world status? It's not like Nigeria is a hopeless mess like Venezuala or North Korea. They are making strides to improve, which should be reported on.
But, okay, Ms. Akentade does not owe it to Nigeria to dedicate her life to Nigerian improvement. If she wants to someday get a job on, say CNN, fine. I wish her great success. But that should start with making sure she is sincere about wanting an education and not planning to spend her time and energy bopping Jews, verbally or physically.
More about the plight of these students:
‘A scary time to study in the US’
“It feels like a really scary and unsettling time for international students studying in the US,” said one Canadian student who has also been accepted by Columbia. “A lot of us chose to study in the US for its freedoms but now knowing that innocent social media posts could cost an education feels like censorship.”
Cost them an education? They are not already educated before they are accepted by Columbia?
Columbia does not accept typical students from American inner city public schools. They don't have a remedial program that starts with learning to read, the place where those schools typically stop and move on the woke indoctrination. They reach our for Canadians, and other foreign students to mix in with the nearly all-white private school Americans they accept.
Some prospective students have even started self-censoring. Another Canadian, accepted into Harvard Law School, told CNN how a friend working on Capitol Hill advised her to go through her social media posts shortly after the visa suspension news broke.
“We were looking at a post from us at Pride, and my caption was simply a rainbow flag and then a trans flag. And I was on the phone with her ‘and I was like, do I have to take this down?’ Eventually we decided no, I could leave it up, but I changed the caption, I removed the trans flag. I don’t know how to feel about that,” the student said.
I know how
I feal about that. I feel that that student is a shameless opportunist who abandons what they profess to believe in as soon as their plan for a comfortable life on the dime of Uncle Sam might be the least bit affected.
Actually, that whole part of the story sounds highly unlikely. She happened to be talking to "a friend on Capitol Hill?" I'm an American, and I don't have the phone number of any "friend on Captitol Hill," to give me advice on how to deal with the federal government. She's sitting in her dorm room, cross legged on the bed, with her stuffed animal on her lap, and her phone in one hand and her iPad in the other changing her social media posts so she can get a visa?
Even more so than the Nigerian, this Canadian should be helping her own country. Sure, Canada is more advanced than Nigeria, but are they just going to accept being "America Junior" forever, or get off their asses and build a country to take pride in?
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