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Amid a push to boost diversity and overall enrollment—and thus rake in more government student aid—UC San Diego admitted increasing numbers of unqualified applicants from low-income high schools: “In order to holistically admit a diverse and representative class, we need to admit students who may be at a higher risk of not succeeding,” the report says.

It has balanced the budget, improved government aid to the poor by removing political middlemen, and cut a tangle of red tape that was strangling business.

Uganda is among a raft of poorer countries pulling back the welcome mat, which officials here blame on deep cuts to American aid.

Egypt, Kenya and Ethiopia are also moving to restrict new refugees, citing funding shortages, aid agencies say.

Ethiopia has also revoked visa exemptions and police routinely detain people lacking the necessary paperwork, aid officials say.