You're right and they came into our country via student visas and when those visas expired they never left. But their main expenses were room and board and flight lessons. And that's about it. Not really millions of dollars in costs. But this to me is a trivial argument.
Using the logic those against this deal use, we shouldn't even allow a plane that's taken off from a UAE airport to land here. After all, it could have a nuke on board. And so could every single tanker that comes from the middle east, with or without the UAE managing some of our terminals. But they don't. Why? Because after 9/11 everything changed. And we realized we were vulnerable. And we took steps to secure ourselves. And we continue to do so. This is a business deal. Sometimes there really isn't a conspiracy involved.
As I said before, there is more to this than simply who's gonna run some terminals at some of our ports. It is important that we treat the UAE with some respect as much as that may be hard for some people to grasp. And if more poeple would do some homework rather than parrot what Ann Coulter has to say about it we'd all be better off.
I haven't heard Ann's point of view on this.