Another Top Chinese-American Scientist Returns Home; U.S. ICE Agents Unintentionally Aid China’s Rapid Rise…又一位華裔頂尖科學家回國，美國 ICE特工為中國立大功…幫忙中國更快速成功掘起…

A recent video of ICE agents going door-to-door to arrest people has gone viral. In freezing temperatures well below zero and heavy snowfall, an elderly man was taken away nearly naked in front of his five-year-old grandson. It was later discovered that he was wrongly arrested, and he was released without even an apology.

ICE, or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security.

Coincidentally, in January 2026, American quantum physicist You Chenglong returned to China to join the University of Science and Technology of China. It’s hard to say this is entirely unrelated to ICE’s recent aggressive enforcement, as the situation for Chinese-Americans in the U.S. is becoming increasingly difficult.

In recent years, ICE and the FBI have frequently raided the homes of Chinese-American scholars on vague grounds such as “visa violations” or “failure to disclose overseas collaborations.” In 2023, a Chinese-American professor at MIT had his home raided by ICE in the early morning. Although he was eventually cleared of charges, his research funding was frozen, collaborators distanced themselves, and his career was effectively destroyed.

You Chenglong earned his Ph.D. in the United States in 2019 and subsequently stayed at Louisiana State University as a postdoctoral researcher, later advancing to assistant research professor, focusing on quantum information and topological materials.

This field is one of the most fiercely contested frontiers in the Sino-U.S. technology competition. In 2025 alone, at least 17 Chinese-American scientists who had secured or were close to securing tenure-track positions in the U.S. announced their full-time return to China, covering strategic fields such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and quantum computing.

It is estimated that as more and more Chinese-American scientists leave the United States, even the White House will find itself in a dilemma. After all, as Jensen Huang has noted, Chinese-Americans make up a significant portion of the top scientists and engineers in artificial intelligence research. This time, ICE agents have inadvertently done something beneficial for China—worthy of recognition!

最近一段ICE特工挨家挨戶的抓人影片火了，零下十幾度，下著大雪，當著人家5歲孫子的面，把人家老頭幾乎赤身裸體的帶走，事後發現抓錯了，連句道歉都沒有就給放了。

ICE 是 Immigration and Customs Enforcement美國移民及海關執法局，隸屬於美國國土安全部的一個聯邦執法機構。

無獨有偶，2026年1月，美國的量子物理學家尤成龍回國加入中國科技大學。很難說和 ICE 最近的瘋狂執法完全沒有關係，因為華人在美國的處境越來越艱難。

ICE 和 FBI 近年常以「簽證違規」「未申報海外合作」等模糊理由突擊搜查華裔學者住所。2023年麻省理工學院一名華裔教授被 ICE 凌晨突襲搜家，雖最終無罪釋放，但其項目經費被凍結、合作者紛紛疏遠，職業生涯實質已毀。

尤成龍是2019年在美國獲得博士學位，隨後留在路易斯安那州立大學做博士後的，並晉升為助理研究教授，主攻量子資訊與拓樸材料方向。

這個領域是中美科技競爭最激烈的前沿領域之一。光是2025年，就有至少17位在美取得終身教職或接近終身軌的華裔科學家宣布全職回國，涵蓋人工智慧、半導體、量子運算等戰略領域。

估計隨著愈來愈多的華裔科學家離開美國，白官都會感到左右為難。畢竟連黃仁勳都說了，在人工智慧科研領域最頂尖的科學家和工程師，華裔佔了一大半。這次，ICE特工做了一件有利於中方的事情，值得表揚！