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timewellwasted5 t1_ix8tb8s wrote

Reply to comment by tmaenadw in The college-age population is about to crash. It will change higher education forever (Article with a focus on PA). by Sovereign2142

>the explosion of gun violence in this country.

Do you have a source citing this as the reason for declining international enrollment, or are you just speculating?

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tmaenadw t1_ix8z9ej wrote

Not speculating, I have read it in several articles. This one mentions it, along with the fact that our strict immigration requirements are driving students elsewhere.

We do have more gun violence than a lot of other countries, that’s just a fact, and when sending your kid away from home for school, impressions count as much as anything. (We are in the top 10 countries for gun deaths). America loves it’s guns, they are likely not going anywhere, and as a country we seem to idolize them above almost everything else.

https://www.apmreports.org/amp/episode/2021/08/03/fading-beacon-why-america-is-losing-international-students

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timewellwasted5 t1_ix91u2h wrote

>We do have more gun violence than a lot of other countries, that’s just a fact,

I never refuted that. This was just the first I had heard of losing international students specifically due to gun violence.

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tmaenadw t1_ix97uc6 wrote

I don’t think it’s the only factor, but combined with some others I do think it has an effect.

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Beef5030 t1_ixbth8d wrote

Met my wife in the dorms, she was an international student. From my experiences and conversations the gun issue is a big one.

Immigration is also broken, we abandoned our K-1 (I-129F) since the processing times have only gotten longer. When we applied it was 10 months, now it's 15, if we kept our petition it would likely be 2 years till we could legally get married.

Every Immigration form is a depressing thread after another about people being separated for indefinite amounts of time, loss of jobs, missing funerals and life events. It's soul crushing to say the least. Pandemic and that evil orange bastards admin left LONG lasting impacts that will be felt for years. Loss of talent is an understatement, I'm a engineer and I left a cirital role due to this.

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tmaenadw t1_ixg4oi7 wrote

I’m sorry it’s so difficult. It is long past time we should have fixed our immigration rules.

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LowNo5584 t1_ixztz74 wrote

It's difficult for a reason. We're not going to let everyone come here. It's a merit based system. Otherwise this country's finite resources would completely implode.

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