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Shannon Salter @civicswithsalter.bsky.social

Let’s not start rumors that the people fired were foreigners. You have to be a US Citizen to work on any American rocket or armament program. It’s called ITAR.

feb 15, 2025, 10:25 pm • 4 0

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Coffeyhouse @coffeyhouse.bsky.social

I never said they didn’t earn citizenship. But the vast majority of talent in the sciences came from overseas because Americans are not educated well enough to take those jobs. youtu.be/koSby3mzX-E?...

feb 15, 2025, 11:01 pm • 2 0 • view
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Shannon Salter @civicswithsalter.bsky.social

Foreign-born persons are less than 25% of STEM workers in the US. Ask yourself why people are working to get you to distrust American educational outcomes. Signed, a US teacher whose son is a literal rocket scientist. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/for...

feb 15, 2025, 11:08 pm • 2 0 • view
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Coffeyhouse @coffeyhouse.bsky.social

That still does not disprove my point. That’s still a sizable chunk of workers who may not come back. Our current administration is hostile towards foreigners and that’s still thousands of important people we need.

feb 15, 2025, 11:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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Shannon Salter @civicswithsalter.bsky.social

While I 100% agree that we should welcome any workers who can earn a living, that wasn’t what you said. “Most” is very different from < 1/4. And there are wealthy interests that would love you to think America can’t produce talented engineers…so they can bring in workers who will work for less.

feb 16, 2025, 12:05 am • 0 0 • view