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‘Huge detriment to American society’: Trump’s second term leading to a brain drain
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August 3, 2025
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12:01Now PlayingElections have consequences, and the latest consequence of Donald Trump's return to the White House is America’s brain drain. The U.S. is set to lose thousands of highly trained, intelligent professionals to other nations because of his policies. Prof. Kellie Carter Jackson tells Ali Velshi, “It is a huge detriment to American society, and that advantage we've held for decades could be lost.” "We got so good at this for so long that we forgot that we were doing it,’ says Ray Suarez. The U.S. is making the lives of foreign students and workers “complicated and hard when other countries are ready to put out the welcome mat.”
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