Now’s not the time to tiptoe around the issues on science and immigration

An image showing Steven Chu and Sudip Parikh

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It’s time to speak out amid increasing nationalism, as science is a global and collaborative enterprise

Science is inherently and increasingly a global enterprise. The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) new top leaders – president Steven Chu and chief executive Sudip Parikh – are both second generation Americans who know first-hand what foreigners bring to the US research enterprise.