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ICE: Following orders is not a viable excuse. What you are doing is wrong. You know it. And eventually, there will be a price to pay. Remember, you could make different decisions.

These idiots in office don’t understand that scientists are needed and that American kids aren’t attending college to become scientists and do research.

So much for having the best and brightest join our efforts to make the world a better place, better world.

The brain drain has started.

Is she Russian?

Donald's the one that should be in custody.

Anyone who goes to the US to work or on holiday needs their head tested, as they could easily end up in custody for months, or in the El Salvador gulags, despite not committing any crime. The World has many non-fascist Countries for people to work or holiday in.

Scientists are already fleeing America due to Trump's policies. Some to Norway, Denmark and Finland, some to EU. Surprisingly many have gone to China. Scientists recognize the MSM propaganda about China for what it is. They will soon lead the US in world research. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Of course they are scared! They are smart people. I wouldn't come here now...

The U.S. is fast becoming a 'no-travel zone.' Travel warnings are being issued by various countries, who are also are quietly kicking out Americans. What goes around, comes around.

Brain Drain is a must; Dictators don't like educated people, especially those who ask questions and have a scientific temperament. MAGA 👍

She broke the law. Good grief.

That was an interesting segment. It's such a shame that customs officials have become hate filled individuals.

If you and I find this shocking, it’s a guarantee trump doesn’t care.

The T administration is going stark raving mad 😠

Canada is scouting heavily for our scientists that have been fired here. Canada just keeps getting better.

The Republican Anti-Science Inquisition has just begun. The outlook for the Next 4 years Ain't real Bright.

How to destroy your country in several easy steps. America has historically won more Nobel Prizes than any other country but I guess we’re just going to throw all that away in the interest of becoming a whites-only fortress.

No foreign person of skill should help the current administration. They're likely to end up in the gulag.

On paper, this is supposed to be about some undeclared biological samples. Frog fetuses, I think. Clearly, the response here has been wildly disproportionate and is politically motivated.

Get her out!! What reason can they have for holding her??

Welcome to the shithole county

"League"... it's a beautiful word. Nobody's heard such a beautiful word.

Terrible

Can’t blame them. They’re not safe in the USA.

I wouldn't come to this 3rd world shithole if I wasn't already here.

😡😡😡

The brain 🧠 drain of America continues

I would be on the first thing smoking up out of here if I were them. It's so sad but this admin is bat shit crazy.

We are losing our intellectual advantages. They won't be coming back.

If I was a scientist, the United States wouldn’t even be on the list of possible places to come to.

Yeah - who needs eggheads anyway when you can make all your decisions based on "feels" from under your tinfoil hat.

And who could blame them when working, visiting, studying in the U.S. might land you in ICE custody, or prison in El Salvador. Those who never expected an American POTUS to do what Trump is doing today never paid attention to the Republican Party and CPAC crowd’s embrace of Hungary’s Viktor Orban.

We used to go around the table on Thanksgiving and say what we were grateful for. I used to say I was glad to be fortunate enough not to have been born in a 3rd world country. That's how much I did not want to live in a corrupt deprived place.

Despicable behavior of our government

Why would they? This regime is untrustworthy.

The catastrophic fallout begins.

Every major "cultural revolution" has targeted scientists and academic leaders. Suppress education, and you have full control of the population. I mean, everyone is miserable, but at least they are under control. When people are struggling to survive, they can't rise up and fight back.

There’s plenty of patriots out there looking for work

DO YOU BLAME THEM

They should get out now, while they still can. Their work in the US will just be quashed anyway, so they need to find a place that supports science.

Surprised that Trump didn’t intervene given that she is Russian.

This is infuriating. I don't want our government to act like a bunch of sociopaths.

@papst-ny.bsky.social

I understand why.😭 Things should not be this way. Shared

Boo!👎👎👎

This is horrible. This Petty, traitorous Tyrant is starting a brain drain that can't continue to support our being the most prominent Country in the World for finding cures and solutions to problems.

I wouldn’t do it. And some countries in Europe are starting to suck up the fleeing scientists. The US is having a brain drain like a toilet paper hoarding rampage. And they aren’t coming back.

They will never put all that together, and if they do, they will blame Biden.

All of you leave, just leave. There's nothing here until we get rid of this stupid felon. In the white house, we're not going to have anything good doctors.Good scientists, good anything we have to get rid of him!

Yeah I mean no shit they are.

No scientist should be coming to this fascist country. There are plenty of research institutions in Europe and Canada that would love to welcome them.

This is worrying not only because I have seen how hard it is it fill positions in labs with only US students. Economically it is crushing. International students bring nearly $44 billion into the US every year.

Over blindly throwing out an opinion. It's always a story never the story. Sorry I kinda wanted there, it's frustrating.

Only "some"?

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Why does this injustice go on? Why are the courts so slow. I feel so helpless. I thought it was supposed to be criminals, not heroes!

The UK need to open its arms and welcome people who no longer seem to be valued in the US

I can't imagine why any non-US citizen scientists would consider working in the US right now. The brain drain is going to be significant in many aspects.

Ummm. I work for a university academic publisher. It's not "some". It's almost all. Some AMERICAN researchers and academics are trying to stay OUT of America to the point of considering claiming asylum for being previously critical of Trump.

Say it with me, unjournalism failures: THAT. IS. THE. GOAL. Now go practice and come back reporting on these things CORRECTLY. This shit isn't accidental or negligent consequences. They are enshittifying the country into a third-world labor source BY DESIGN.

Oh well. If she’s legal she has nothing to fear. If she’s don’t anything remiss, including white lies in her application, get her the hell out of America, yesterday. Why are foreigners being hired over Americans anyway.

ICE needs dismantling root and branch. This is not just Trump. He’s the leader but these actions are being carried out by others. This is who ICE is.

I don’t blame them. There are a whole bunch of us wondering if we still want to live here.

Come to Canada 🇨🇦 we are happy to have more intelligent people here:)

Hello, don't come here! This is where science comes to die.

NPR'S titles appear to be neutral, but they use a lot of words with negative connotations when talking about shitty things Trump does. They're not white-washing or pearl clutching. They're fighting under the radar.

This is the real reason she is detained: "...she has publicly opposed her country's invasion of Ukraine. " Putin must have commanded trump to do it on one of their "perfect " phone calls

There are plenty of Canadians who could move home if you actually had the science jobs for them

Why are we not hearing about legal appeals to get her released as we are hearing about other appeals?

Why wouldn't they be scared?

I would do more than reconsider. I would get the hell out of here. But that's just me.

The most ignorant were elected!!

Not only that but domestic terrorists authorised by Pres to abduct innocents and send them to torture prisons without due process and complete destruction of DEI to install complete morons to Govt... there are clearly MASSIVE societal issues with US. Abortion rights too.

It should make ALL scientists AVOID the US… hear they are trying to advance the world… and here comes Trump and the Republicans pushing it back to 1896… run don’t, walk is my advice!

No doubt.

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I wouldn’t try to work here. What’s the point. Funding ‘issues’ and American Gestapo… If this shit doesn’t get ended, we’ll be a near backwater. Terrible all the way around.

I'm not surprised. At this rate, it will be easier to convince a person to help destroy us than to help us...

And they should be! I don’t even want my daughter, a US citizen who lives in England, to come home to visit. I’m sure her social media is anti Trump and that can get you in big trouble these days. Our freedom of speech is precarious.

More brain drain 😥

Why would anyone come to this country for anything at this time? If I had the money I would leave here until felon45 is gone and we have someone in office who has a functional brain. Republicans must grow a spine and act to remove him now before its way to late.

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Please come to Canada! Being tossed in a prison by fascist thugs for 2 months for nothing is not okay.

Hello dark ages our old friend. We’ve come to be with you again.

🙄🙄🙄duh , nobody wants to be here anymore. Other countries will gladly take them

The worst part is that even if he's gone in four years, we could return to this idiocy in another four. As someone else said, the world can't keep betting on low-information voters in Wisconsin making the right decision every four years.

@lazytato.bsky.social

These people have been on the receiving end of a MASSIVE, decades long disinformation campaign. The very poor have been preyed upon, using information silos and natural communal behavior. They've been told their entire lives that the dems are evil, and have never been shown any other truth.

*1750s FIFY

If I didn’t have to live here, I wouldn’t. If I lived anywhere else, I sure as hell wouldn’t come here. B

PASS IT ON!!!✊🏼🇺🇸✊🏼 MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!!✊🏼🇺🇸✊🏼 #RESISTANCEISBEAITIFUL!!!🌹

Fascism unbridled.

For decades we've been told we need the Einstein visa and H1b visa programs to attract and keep talent in the US so they can make things better here, rather than making businesses thrive in their home countries to compete against US businesses. Running off US citizen talent suggests that was a lie

trump is getting rid of russian trash in the US universities? Finally he's doing something good.

Declare your frogs you goofball

Call your Rep. and Senator every day. Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121. Email them through their websites. Tell them this: 1. Call for impeachment. Loudly. Daily. 2. Visit the concentration camps in El Salvador and demand to see your constituents. Or don’t ask for money… (Please repost)

Come to the UK, please!

Everyone i know who had plans to visit or move to America have now cancelled it including myself, we had a disaney trip planned along with seeing New York and Vegas. We have decided to go to Disany Paris, Finland, and Germany now.

Oh goody. Let’s make America even dumber again.

All heading for European countries where they will feel safe and welcome.

Can't help but notice that the concern is once again about negative consequences for Americans, not for the people they're kidnapping and torturing.

Republicans hate science because they think it’s the devil’s work, so they hate scientists. I’m leaving the country ASAP. I’ve begun the process.

In any sane country, the ICE equivalent would have to formally charge someone with a crime--in a court--or let them go after a *short* period. Due process is intended for EVERYONE and holding people indefinitely, without a trial, is just plain wrong.

May 3rd, find your local protest!

It’s also causing a lot of citizens to reconsider living in the US

Why on earth would they take the risk?

Will only get worse.

ICE must have decided she's a Navalnik...

Trump is tearing the threads out of every fabric have woven over the centuries. Yet here we sit.

If there's anything the US doesn't need, it's a brain drain!

Why hasn't these people with ice been arrested. They are clearly breaking the law. These people will not begin to respect the law and the Constitution until they are arrested for their crimes.