Trump’s crackdown on Chinese researchers is China Initiative 2.0, lawyers say
Launched in 2018, the original China Initiative was shuttered in 2022 over widespread criticism that it profiled Asian American scientists based on ethnicity.
Immigration attorneys and civil rights advocates believe the Trump administration has quietly built what amounts to a revamped China Initiative, operating without the formal name that drew widespread criticism and was shut down under the Biden administration.
What they’re saying
Robert Fisher, a former assistant U.S. attorney and …
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