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The US invested in me ~$1M in education, grants, etc; my PhD, postdoc and career have been mostly US-funded.
After ~13y of contributions, I ended up within 3 months of becoming an illegal alien, while fully employed at a top US university.
This system is nuts.
We need to staple a green card to every PhD diploma earned by an international student.
Trump's executive orders have hurt the reputation of the US for its openness to international scholars. We need to more than repair this calamity and canceling these orders won't suffice.