Phillies: Student Visas, Weapon for Liberty

Worcester, Mass., April 28: Libertarian Presidential candidate George Phillies today called for expansion of student visa programs. «There is no more powerful way to show people the rewards of freedom,» Phillies said, «than to bring them into our country as students. While here, foreign students enrich the education of our fellow Americans. When they go home, these same foreign students who came to America for undergraduate and advanced degrees will become powerful ambassadors for liberty.»

Phillies recalled 1991, when some of the first Russian graduate students came to his own university. «To help them acclimate to America,» he said, «We took them to the local supermarket. Their jaws would drop. Later they told me, ‘I saw that, and I knew Russia had lost the cold war’.»

«That’s the benefit of bringing students to America,» Phillies said. «They learn about our country, its customs, and the richness of our life. Hopefully they like what they see, and they take the idea of freedom and the promise of those rewards back to their own countries.»

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