When work visas add ideological vetting, university hiring, academic freedom, and talent flows shift. State-defined loyalty screens risk chilling speech and deterring high-skill migrants while empowering political gatekeeping.
— Conditioning employment-based immigration on ideology would redefine free-speech boundaries, talent competitiveness, and state leverage over campus politics and research.
Santiago Vidal Calvo
2025.08.18
100% relevant
The article urges screening H‑1B university applicants for ideology instead of cutting visas and provides field-share data from 15,000 petitions to target scrutiny.
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