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French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump (1 Viewer)

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“I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) “who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled”, Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde. “This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” the minister added.

“Freedom of opinion, free research, and academic freedom are values that we will continue to proudly uphold. I will defend the right of all French researchers to be faithful to them, while respecting the law,” Baptiste said.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/mahmoud-khalil-statement
A diplomatic source told the French news agency that the incident occurred on 9 March.

Another AFP source said that US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages”. He was reportedly also informed of an FBI investigation, but told that “charges were dropped” before being expelled.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The research minister, Baptiste, has been outspoken in his own criticism of the Trump administration, and Elon Musk, for making huge cuts to scientific research budgets.

On the same day that the researcher was denied entry to the US, Baptiste published a letter calling on American researchers to relocate to France. “Many well-known researchers are already questioning their future in the United States,” he wrote. “We would naturally wish to welcome a certain number of them,”

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I don't think chasing away foreign scientists is a good idea.
 
j brown's body said:
“I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) “who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled”, Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde. “This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” the minister added.

“Freedom of opinion, free research, and academic freedom are values that we will continue to proudly uphold. I will defend the right of all French researchers to be faithful to them, while respecting the law,” Baptiste said.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/mahmoud-khalil-statement
A diplomatic source told the French news agency that the incident occurred on 9 March.

Another AFP source said that US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages”. He was reportedly also informed of an FBI investigation, but told that “charges were dropped” before being expelled.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The research minister, Baptiste, has been outspoken in his own criticism of the Trump administration, and Elon Musk, for making huge cuts to scientific research budgets.

On the same day that the researcher was denied entry to the US, Baptiste published a letter calling on American researchers to relocate to France. “Many well-known researchers are already questioning their future in the United States,” he wrote. “We would naturally wish to welcome a certain number of them,”

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I don't think chasing away foreign scientists is a good idea.
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It's so antithetical to American values.
 
LORD HAVE MERCY.

Trump cultists will love this.

In a cult one can NOT criticize a leader. It is verboten.

So it won't take long for the cultists to arrive and celebrate the exclusion of the French scientist because he dared to be critical of Trump.

Have we ever had a more fecal, insecure, petulant child for a President?

Responses by Trump cultists: Yeah, Joe Biden.

Anyone taking bets?
 
j brown's body said:
“I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) “who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled”, Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde. “This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” the minister added.

“Freedom of opinion, free research, and academic freedom are values that we will continue to proudly uphold. I will defend the right of all French researchers to be faithful to them, while respecting the law,” Baptiste said.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/mahmoud-khalil-statement
A diplomatic source told the French news agency that the incident occurred on 9 March.

Another AFP source said that US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages”. He was reportedly also informed of an FBI investigation, but told that “charges were dropped” before being expelled.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The research minister, Baptiste, has been outspoken in his own criticism of the Trump administration, and Elon Musk, for making huge cuts to scientific research budgets.

On the same day that the researcher was denied entry to the US, Baptiste published a letter calling on American researchers to relocate to France. “Many well-known researchers are already questioning their future in the United States,” he wrote. “We would naturally wish to welcome a certain number of them,”

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I don't think chasing away foreign scientists is a good idea.
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The lesson for travelers who arrive in and hope to enter the USA:

Your phones will be taken and their contents checked.

If you have posted (and, perhaps, received) messages critical of trump/musk/vance, you will be denied entry to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
 
Pyrite said:
The lesson for travelers who arrive in and hope to enter the USA:

Your phones will be taken and their contents checked.

If you have posted (and, perhaps, received) messages critical of trump/musk/vance, you will be denied entry to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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Brave my azz! Bunch of chickenchit retards afraid of their own shadows.

How would that directive to border agents been worded? " If finding anything on a personal electronic device that in any way might cause our mango monkey some distress, reject them immediately. We don't want our lord and saviour's feeeewings hurt"??????? 😆
 
Greenbeard said:
What happened to Vance's lectures on those who "don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion"?
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The only opinions allowed are fascist ones.

If you disagree with fascist opinions you're a meanie. How DARE you not tolerate my "different opinion."

If you are the fascist you by definition don't have to tolerate anything else.

Fascism is just narcissistic logic turned into a political ideology.
 
Here's the fun part of that story:

On the same day that the researcher was denied entry to the US, Baptiste published a letter calling on American researchers to relocate to France. “Many well-known researchers are already questioning their future in the United States,” he wrote. “We would naturally wish to welcome a certain number of them.”
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j brown's body said:
“I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) “who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled”, Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde. “This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” the minister added.

“Freedom of opinion, free research, and academic freedom are values that we will continue to proudly uphold. I will defend the right of all French researchers to be faithful to them, while respecting the law,” Baptiste said.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/mahmoud-khalil-statement
A diplomatic source told the French news agency that the incident occurred on 9 March.

Another AFP source said that US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages”. He was reportedly also informed of an FBI investigation, but told that “charges were dropped” before being expelled.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The research minister, Baptiste, has been outspoken in his own criticism of the Trump administration, and Elon Musk, for making huge cuts to scientific research budgets.

On the same day that the researcher was denied entry to the US, Baptiste published a letter calling on American researchers to relocate to France. “Many well-known researchers are already questioning their future in the United States,” he wrote. “We would naturally wish to welcome a certain number of them,”

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I don't think chasing away foreign scientists is a good idea.
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Sounds like a Putin reaction......hmmm. Someone expelled for criticizing Fascist trump/musk regime? Naw, would never happen in the good ol' USofA.
 
Fascist shithole of a country.
 
There is a FIFA World Cup supposed to be played in the US next year. Might be time for all foreign nations to warn their citizens that it is not safe to travel to America, and that the risk of being randomly refused entry, or detained and jailed by roving, armed govt gangs is high for anyone with non white skin, or who speak english with a non-American accent.
 
Old 'N Chill said:
Sounds like a Putin reaction......hmmm. Someone expelled for criticizing Fascist trump/musk regime? Naw, would never happen in the good ol' USofA.
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Putin would have helped him out of a 5th story window. Trump is a *****.
 
Old 'N Chill said:
Sounds like a Putin reaction......hmmm. Someone expelled for criticizing Fascist trump/musk regime? Naw, would never happen in the good ol' USofA.
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Trump idolizes Putin.

History will not be kind to Trump or the Dumbass MAGA faithful that put him in office
 
DHS said it was threatening of Trump and terroristic.

Post what he wrote.
 
j brown's body said:
“I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) “who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled”, Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde. “This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” the minister added.

“Freedom of opinion, free research, and academic freedom are values that we will continue to proudly uphold. I will defend the right of all French researchers to be faithful to them, while respecting the law,” Baptiste said.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/mahmoud-khalil-statement
A diplomatic source told the French news agency that the incident occurred on 9 March.

Another AFP source said that US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages”. He was reportedly also informed of an FBI investigation, but told that “charges were dropped” before being expelled.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The research minister, Baptiste, has been outspoken in his own criticism of the Trump administration, and Elon Musk, for making huge cuts to scientific research budgets.

On the same day that the researcher was denied entry to the US, Baptiste published a letter calling on American researchers to relocate to France. “Many well-known researchers are already questioning their future in the United States,” he wrote. “We would naturally wish to welcome a certain number of them,”

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I don't think chasing away foreign scientists is a good idea.
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Ahh, good, good. Really doing the commie thing. Fantastic.

****ing MAGA commies pukes.
 
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