This would be a massive reversal from Trump’s policies so far, which have threatened international students’ ability to enter the country and jeopardized the admissions of many top institutions — and it also contradicts his prior moves to revoke visas for Chinese students. But the new pledge, which was backed up by Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, provoked instant fury from the MAGA world.

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    7 days ago

    “All Chinese are spies” “all brown people are illegals.”

    These are very racist comments. Did you not register these statements as racist since this kind of language is purposely being bled into every day normal talk with (typically) right wing political figures?