David Dunford: Stop hassling foreign students coming to U.S.

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This is my Arab-Israeli Conflict professor. This a damn good argument too. -Bill

Guest Opinion: Stop hassling foreign students coming to U.S.

DAVID DUNFORD
Tucson Citizen

The other day, a bloody gunbattle shut down I-10 between Tucson and Phoenix. Competing coyotes, smugglers of illegals across the border, were responsible.
I look around my classroom at the University of Arizona and see fewer foreign students than in years past. Many U.S. universities report similar declines, while campuses in the UK and Australia are increasing their foreign student enrollments.

I recently received a call for help from a family friend regarding her husband, an Arab graduate of Thunderbird American Graduate School of International Management, who lives in the United States, is a senior executive of an Internet company and travels abroad constantly.

He was mistakenly arrested on suspicion of terrorism in a European country earlier this year and, although he has in hand a letter of apology from that government, he faces hours of grilling every time he re-enters this country. His appeals to be taken off the State Department watch list fall on deaf ears.

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