placeforasnark said:
As (basically) a PhD student (working on a 5-year project in a lab at a big institution), I assure you (anon) that I absolutely support PhD students from other countries. Science is fundamentally about expanding knowledge, and my indian coworker has expanded my perspective way more than (an equally lovely human) another white student from the same part of america I’m from. So heck yeah, bring me all your Iranian (and other middle eastern countries’) students.
esrigby said:
Not to mention that Iranian PhD students aren’t /taking/ slots away from American students. The schools are /giving/ them to them. Iranian PhD students aren’t marching into their offices and threatening them with rolled-up results certificates until the weeping assessment team hand over the placement slots. Framing the freely-given grant of placements (or jobs, or benefits) as immigrants committing mass resource theft is transparent xenophobia.