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Wen Ho Lee was a PRC spy and was caught exfiltrating secrets. Hardly a reasonable example of unjust persecution.

Are you serious? No US person seriously believes we will deport a Chinese national on a legitimate visa for their political views. Can you point to a single example of this happening?

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> Wen Ho Lee was a PRC spy and was caught exfiltrating secrets.

then why wasn't he convicted of it? LOL why is he walking around free, and with a bunch of money he won from a civil suit filed against the government?

who's incompetent here, the FBI, the DOJ, or the courts? how can we assure that every east asian accused of espionage is convicted?

it's a shame you aren't a federal judge, then no spy would ever get away.

Isn’t that exactly what happened to Emma Goldman and Charles Chaplin?

Were they Chinese nationals?

you know, it's funny, the only person caught up by the china initiative was a white guy too.

There are famous cases of USA deporting a Polish-Lithuanian Jew and a British Actor because of their political views. Is there a reason to believe they wouldn’t deport a Chinese national for the same reason? Particularly since “having been a member of the Communist party” (a requirement for any Chinese citizen seeking a job in the public sector) is a question they ask before issuing a green card.

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