Timeline of Events

• Early March 2025: Philippe Baptiste, France's Minister of Higher Education and Research, sends a letter to French research institutions urging them to take in American scientists looking to leave the United States due to Trump's budget cuts in science.
• March 9, 2025: A French space researcher working for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) is stopped for a random check upon arrival at an unspecified US airport near Houston while en route to a conference on spatial matters (possibly the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held March 10-14).
• March 9, 2025: US immigration officers search the researcher's phone and allegedly find text messages with colleagues and friends expressing "personal opinions" critical of the Trump ad ...