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March 24, 2025March 24, 2025By Mario Vásquez
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During the night of last Friday, March 21, the French Research Minister, Philippe Baptistehe publicly declared that migration agents in the United States had denied entry to the country “to a scientist from France” on Monday 10, allegedly for criticizing the president Donald Trump.

“A French researcher, commissioned by the National Center for Scientific Research, traveled to Texas To participate in a conference and ended up expelled. This measure was taken by US authorities because their phone contained exchanges with colleagues about His opinion regarding Trump’s policies”Baptiste said.

So far the name of the French scientist who was allegedly vetoed by the US authorities has not been revealed; However, it is known that the incident occurred a few hours before the Conference on Planetary and Lunar Scienceheld in the city of Houston last Tuesday, March 11.

“Freedom of opinion, research and academic freedom are values ​​that we will continue to sustain with pride. I will always defend the right of French researchers to be faithful To those principles, provided that the law is respected, ”said Baptiste, who has been critical of the”harassment”From Trump to the scientific community.

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A day after the public statements of Philippe Baptiste, United States confirmed the expulsion of the French scientist; However, the US authorities assured that the decision to veto it in the country “is not linked” with the alleged opinions of the researcher Gallic About the Republican president, Donald Trump.

“The French researcher was in possession of confidential information in his electronic device related to the National Laboratory of New Mexicoviolating an agreement of Confidentiality. He admitted to having obtained without permission and tried hide it”He said Tricia McLaughlinspokesman for the National Security Department.

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Subsequently, McLaughlin described Baptiste’s statements as “blatantly false”However, at the moment it is unknown when or how the French scientist would have worked or interact with the laboratory located in the county of Los Alamos, which specializes in classified research on Nuclear weapons

For his part, the French research minister said he has not yet discussed the scientist vetoed, but said the case is “Extraordinarily atypical”, So it has become a topic of worry internationally, because “seriously undermines the fundamental freedoms of the entire academic world.”

This has not been the only case of the month in which the United States denied access to foreign scientists. Last Saturday, March 1, the migration authorities prevented the entrance with the Lebanese nephrologist Rasha alawieh, Brown University professor, in Rhode Island, who has a work visa.

The US government denied the entrance to Alawieh after checking their cell phone at the airport of Providence and discover that the scientist had attended, at the end of February, to the funeral of Hasan Nasralaformer leader HizbuláMuslim paramilitary group originated in the south of Lebanon and considered the US terrorist organization.

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