Cotton Proposes to Restrict Student Visas to Chinese

Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a nationally televised interview that issuing F-1 visas to Chinese students to allow them to pursue “quantum computing degrees” is a self-defeating exercise. Studying Shakespeare and the Federalist papers would be okay with Cotton, a Harvard J.D. graduate, U.S. Army captain and Afghanistan war veteran. But educating Chinese nationals who become, as Cotton said, so many of the Chinese Communist Party’s “brightest minds” is “a scandal.”

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Tom Cotton Gets His Ass Handed To Him

At a Johns Hopkins University foreign policy event on Friday, Iraq and Afghanistan veteran and current Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) turned to ask Fred Boenig about the pins on his lapel. Fred Boenig, whose son committed suicide in Afghanistan in 2010, gave an answer Cotton was likely not expecting.

Watch the neocon mindfuk at work. We (not you … the majority) elect these people. We deserve what we got coming.