Posted on 03/27/2024 12:10:28 PM PDT by Jacquerie
Two graduate students and a professor on Monday challenged the constitutionality of a 2023 state law that restricts employment of people from China and six other nations at Florida public universities and colleges.
Attorneys for Florida International University doctoral students Zhipeng Yin and Zhen Guo and University of Florida professor Zhengfei Guan — all of whom are from China — filed a lawsuit in federal court in Miami. The challenge alleges, in part, that the law is unconstitutional because it is trumped by federal immigration laws.
The lawsuit said that under the measure (SB 846), people “who are not United States citizens or legal permanent residents, and whose domicile is in China or one of six other specified foreign countries, are presumptively prohibited from any academic employment in Florida public universities and colleges.”
The law was part of a package of changes that the Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis approved last year targeting China. DeSantis said in May 2023 that the package was part of a “commitment to crack down on Communist China.”
“Florida is taking action to stand against the United States’ greatest geopolitical threat — the Chinese Communist Party,” DeSantis said as he signed the measures.
The education law deals with trying to prevent involvement in the higher-education system by China and six other designated countries of “concern.” Those countries are Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and Syria.
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Are Zhipeng and Zhen commies?
If you don’t like our laws, don’t come here! And don’t try to use us to get your communist beliefs pushed on our youth.
I oppose this type of sweeping law. There are good people from China, who come here as professors or students, who ought not be prohibited from work with such a broad brush.
Start doing background checks on them and their families. Find ties to CCP. It’ can’t be hard. They are mostly all here to steal and sabotage.
“I oppose this type of sweeping law. “
I bet you don’t even know what the law says! Did you also believe the “Don’t say gay” law prevented teachers and students from saying the word gay?
Do non-citizens have standing?
There are good people from China
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Yes but their families are hostages to the CCP. Plus, they need CCP approval to leave the country - giveaway right there as to their intentions.
Do the good ones come with labels?
Zero way to do that in a meaningful way.
They’re communist spies, saboteurs, and propagandists, as are all people sent here by the Chinese Communist Party.
Anyone from mainland “Red” China must be presumed to be a communist spy, saboteur, or propagandist on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
Chinese students/professors are in the US thanks to permission from the CCP.
As such, every one is susceptible to orders from the CCP.
No thanks. Go elsewhere.
So the answer is yes.
If you are not a member in good standing with the CCP you can not leave China.
“There are good people from China, who come here as professors or students,”
Correct me if I am wrong. Those coming here have to get CCP approval first and are monitored while her?
>>I oppose this type of sweeping law. There are good people from China, who come here as professors or students
All of whom are ChiCom agents. There are no “private citizens” of China, they are all considered property of the CCP. Any Chinese national here will have their families threatened back home unless they spy for the CCP.
“a 2023 state law that restricts employment of people from China and six other nations at Florida public universities and colleges.”
Hey, give them a break. They probably want to get in on high level research programs so they have something to send bav]ck to the CCP
They sound like spies. They need a vacation in Guantanamo Bay.
That simply isn’t true.
The government of China is virtually synonymous with the party. But one doesn’t need to be a party member to get a passport. In fact, only around 10 % of Chinese citizens actually belong to the CCP. As a professor for 25 years I had many Chinese students but only a few were party members.
Seems to me that this has a very small chance of success.
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