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The United States immigration campaign calms the world research community, with frustration and deportation of academics who raise concerns even for travelers who have valid entry documents.
Foreign researchers who spoke with them nature Reflection on planned trips to the United States for meetings and field work. And American scientists who are not citizens weighing their travel plans, afraid that if they leave the country, they will not be allowed to return.
“Anxiety is clear,” says Jonathan Grud, an administrative partner at the Immigration Law Company in Green and Spiegel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jarud says he is offering at least 20 calls per day of clients who ask whether it is safe to travel.
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The pressure has been built months ago with the new administration of US President Donald Trump, who carried out a promise to tighten border security.
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Many scientists were concerned about several incidents that included academics last month. In one, a kidney transplant specialist at the University of Brown in Brudence, Rod Island, was deported to Lebanon after trying to re -enter the United States with a valid visa. It was later reported These pictures on her phone had linked her to Hezbollah, which the American authorities consider a foreign terrorist organization.
Elsewhere, border officials were detained and directed a French scientist who was traveling to a scientific conference near Houston earlier this month. The French government says he was expelled after border officials searched his personal devices and found “personal opinion” messages on the American research policy. The US Department of Internal Security says that the world had confidential information from an American national laboratory on its devices, “in violation of the agreement to not reveal” and that “any claim that its removal was based on false political beliefs.”
The researcher is the world of the planets who worked with NASA on the science of Mars, and confirmed multiple sources nature. The conference did not attend.
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Andrea Liu, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, says she was “shocked” to hear the experience of the French world. “This makes me think that if you really want to come and visit to science, be on the safe side – bring a burning phone and an empty laptop, so this does not happen to you.”
Carolina Reagalis, a lawyer in Classco, the immigration law partners in Philadelphia, says American border officials have the right to search on phones and laptops for anyone who enters the country, even citizens, says Carolina Reagalis, a lawyer in the immigration law partners in Classco in Philadelphia. Since 2019, applicants for visas to the United States must provide the names of their social media users, although messages on these accounts were rarely used to refuse to enter the past, she says.
Grud says that most travelers to the United States do not need fear: Despite a handful of prominent cases, hundreds of thousands of people enter the United States every month and continue to do so smoothly, he says.
But if someone’s record is not primitive, Grode is recommended with additional caution. He says that an exaggerated visa or meeting in the past with the law, even if it seems simple, can be a problem with the current administration, which is “strict as possible.”
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Fears regarding traveling are especially increasing for researchers who feel targeted by the Trump administration’s opposition to the rights of transgender people; Diversity, Equity and Integration Programs (Dei); And specific topics of research, such as climate change and misinformation. Canada’s Geophysical World, spoke to nature Provided that her identity is not disclosed for its safety, it is now re -evaluating a planned trip to the United States in May to meet the collaborators and conduct field work. The researcher, a passing woman, says she does not know the information that the border authorities have from previous visits to the country, when she had identity documents under a different name.
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“It appears that in the current political environment, any kind of violations or contradictions are seized for immediate work,” she says.