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This is going to do so much damage.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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It’s the All-In on AI bet. They think they can get rid of all the non- white intellectual capacity and have it replaced by the dickbags from Silicon Valley via compute. We are so fucked.

Yup. And there is a steadily trickle of Chinese scientists repatriating. I was following it for a while. I'm not sure how important it is, because most of them seem close to retirement age. China's main disadvantage is the need to learn Mandarin, but otherwise could attract many researchers.

It's also wildly illegal. I believe eventually the courts would hammer it down. But it will cause all kinds of damage and chaos even in the best-case scenario. Essentially, there's no way to "fix" the problems caused by people intent on causing damage deliberately.