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http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/you-re-scaring-our-greatest-minds-scientists-tell-donald-trump-n718026Feb 7 2017, 4:30 pm ET
Youre Scaring Off Our Greatest Minds, Scientists Tell Donald Trump
by Maggie Fox
An executive order pausing immigration and other travel by people from seven mostly Muslim countries is scaring away scientists, doctors and would-be entrepreneurs, biotechnology executives said Tuesday.
The letter from 165 chief executives and other top leaders at biopharma companies joins an unusual onslaught from the medical and scientific community appalled at actions being taken by the new administration of President Donald Trump.
The ban currently suspended by federal court order stopped refugees and other legal migrants from Iraq, Syria, Sudan and other countries deemed at high risk of terrorist activity.
"Though the ban from the Trump administration is aimed at seven countries, our global employees interpret the underlying message as, 'America is no longer welcoming of any immigrants, whatsoever,'" the executives wrote in their letter, which was published in Nature Biotechnology.
"They fear similar orders could be issued for other countries at a moment's notice. They fear being stigmatized and discriminated against, simply because of their religion, irrespective of the nation they come from."
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You're Scaring Off Our Greatest Minds, Scientists Tell Donald Trump (Original Post)
babylonsister
Feb 2017
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kimbutgar
(21,056 posts)1. We will be a third world nation by 2020
By then chump and the rethugs will gave cemented their power from ever bring voted out. The grain drain will become a drip and then become a torrent of water😰
babylonsister
(171,035 posts)2. I'm hoping they will be long gone by then. nt
bdamomma
(63,801 posts)3. I hope they will be gone
along with the repig party
kimbutgar
(21,056 posts)4. We have to find a way to educate and put a halt to their propaganda
Until we do we are f'ed.