Nicholas Kristof, urging Bernie Sanders not to pull a Nader and help elect Trump, invokes the sum of all Democratic fears:
Presidential campaigns are driven in part by surprises: What if there is a new wave of Central American refugees, or a terror attack by a Muslim recently admitted to the U.S.? Either would bolster Trump’s chances.Quite so. But that second horror scenario flashes on a blind spot in Kristof's last column -- a truly remarkable one, relating the saga of a 20 year-old Afghan woman who, denied a formal education and shut up in purdah at home, has used online courses to learn advanced mathematics and other subjects, including English, and now, having gained admission to a junior college in Iowa, seeks a visa to study in the U.S. That's a problem:
Unfortunately, the United States isn’t helping. Last month, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul rejected her application for a student visa. That happens all the time: Brilliant young men and women are accepted by American universities and then denied visas because, under U.S. law, they are seen as immigration risks...
