Trump's treatment of 2 Russian women highlights a flawed immigration policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : On Feb. 16, Petrova was detained upon returning to Boston from Paris and was later transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Vermont and then Louisiana.
50% : Romanovsky believes the Trump administration is using immigration as a means to punish any alleged or perceived wrongdoing, however minor, "because they can," and said that despite public perception that the U.S. has lax immigration laws, in actuality, the Immigration and Nationality Act and related laws are "very harsh." "The goal," he alleged, "is to discourage people from coming to this country" and to prompt them to leave on their own.
41% : The release of the "young ballerina" was apparently important enough for Trump to involve the CIA -- and ultimately resulted in the release of an alleged material supporter of the Russian military.
40% : Yet while Trump has embraced Karelina, his administration has punished Petrova, a Russian national employed at Harvard on a J-1 visa.
38% : But her much-heralded meeting with Trump makes me wonder why the administration isn't equally worked up about the liberty of another woman of Russian descent -- one with a strikingly similar name.
25% : Last month, after UFC CEO Dana White discussed Karelina's plight with Trump, the Trump administration negotiated a prisoner swap in which Karelina was released in exchange for Arthur Petrov, a German-Russian national indicted last year for allegedly exporting sensitive U.S.-sourced microelectronics.

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