For researchers like them, who attend many international scientific conferences a year, restrictions on travel will take a heavy toll on crucial collaborations with other scientists from around the world, not to mention their personal lives. The online petition they launched on Friday (https://notoimmigrationban.com/), where their peers in academia can voice their opposition to the ban, now has more than 7,000 names, including 40 Nobel laureates. It calls the executive order discriminatory and unduly burdensome for the people affected — but it also describes how much it will hurt “American leadership in higher education and research.”

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by Julia Belluz, Vox.

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