Chicago president feels the chill as immigration curbs bite

Automatic green cards for international PhD graduates at US universities could restore America’s ‘competitive advantage’, says Robert Zimmer

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February 6, 2019
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February 15, 2019
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Print headline: Immigration curbs bring a chill to Chicago’s president

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Reader's comments (3)

#1 Submitted by john.... on February 6, 2019 - 12:08pm
Barak Obama was neither first generation, nor an international student. His Kansas-born mother was a graduate student at U Hawaii when he was born in n Hawaii- the USA. Please don’t rehash the lie that projected Donald Trump to the White House!
#2 Submitted by Momoko Takahashi on February 7, 2019 - 3:25pm
The sentence that follows gives context to the "first-generation", in which case, Obama does fit the definition.
#3 Submitted by Jack Grove on February 15, 2019 - 9:51am
As author of this piece, I've added an additional line to remove any ambiguity around the issue raised above. Professor Zimmer was talking about the importance of faculty whose fathers and-or mothers were born outside the US, of whom President Obama is the most famous recently, as well as international-born staff.

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