There is still that contingent of the GOP which says things like “let’s pin a diploma to every foreign graduate” and “we need more H1-B visas so talented foreigners can come to America.”

Let’s revisit the case of Muhammad Masood, a Pakistani doctor, who came to America in 2018 to work as a researcher at the world-famous Mayo Clinic.

Masood was named a Mayo Bronze Quality Fellow and conducted clinic trials. Then he joined ISIS.

Now he’s going away for a long time, at taxpayer expense, where he can conduct research in prison.

A former Mayo Clinic research coordinator was sentenced Friday to 18 years in federal prison for attempting to provide material support to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Masood’s attorney, Jordan Kushner, blamed his client’s action on mental illness. But Senior U.S. District Judge Paul A. Magnuson told Masood that not withstanding those issues, “First and foremost, you are sitting in this court as a convicted terrorist. That’s the way it is.”

Magnuson noted that before his arrest, Masood had said: “I will kill or be killed.”

While the thrust of the case involves Masood trying to join ISIS abroad, there were mentions of terrorist attacks in America.

On February 13,2020, MASOOD and CHS-I discussed via SMP the process by which ISIS recruits foreign fighters. During this discussion, MASOOD told CHS-I “you know fbrother]…there is so much I wanted to do here…lon wulf [sic] stuff you know…but I realizedl should be on the ground helping brothers sisters kids inshAllah.” Based on my training and experience, and the context of the conversations between MASOOD and CHS-I, I believe MASOOD is referring to wanting to conduct “lone wolf’ terrorist attacks on the United States.

BB indicated to CHS-I that because he was currently in the United States, “sometimes i wanto [sic] attack enemy when i am behind enemy linea [sic] itself’ because “not many people cant [sic] even reach here to attack.” Discussing his travel to make Hijra, BB noted that he will lose the chance to conduct an attack in the United States: “i wonder if I will miss the opportunity of attacking the enemy when I was in the middle of it.”

Also Masood hated smiling at Kufar or non-Muslims.

BB explained to CHS-I that BB wanted to make Hijra because BB “hates smiling at the passing kuffarl3 just to not make them suspicios [sic] . . . I cannot tolerate it anymore.”

Do we really need doctors from Pakistan or anyone from Pakistan?