Former President Donald Trump proposes “automatically” granting a green card to foreigners who graduate from an American university. This measure runs counter to his efforts to curb both legal and illegal immigration during his tenure and contrasts with his incendiary … anti-immigration rhetoric during the current electoral campaign.
“What I want to do, and what I will do, is that if you graduate from a university, I think you should automatically get, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country,” said the most likely candidate. of the Republican Party on the podcast ‘The All-In Podcast’. So he continued: “If you graduate, or get a doctorate from a university, you should be able to stay in this country.”
As reported by CNN, Trump made these comments in a medium that included, among others, prominent venture capital investors David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya, who recently organized a fundraiser for Trump in San Francisco. One of the podcast’s hosts, investor Jason Calacanis, asked him: “Can you promise that you will give us more ability to bring the best and brightest students from around the world to the United States?”
Internal deportations
Trump has made immigration a central focus of his bid for the White House in 2024, promising to carry out “the largest internal deportation operation in American history” and using the issue to attack the leadership of President Joe Biden. . His latest comments come after Biden earlier this week announced an executive action allowing certain undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens to apply for legal permanent residency without leaving the country. The president’s election-year measure, aimed at attracting Latino voters, seeks to offset the effect of a more restrictive rule approved earlier this month to limit asylum processing at the southern border of the United States.
In the podcast, Trump complained that some foreign graduates from top US universities cannot create companies in the country and, instead, found them in India or China. «You need people to work for your companies and they have to be intelligent people. You need brilliant people and we train brilliant people, people who graduate from college, people who are number one in their class. You have to be able to recruit these people and keep them,” he said.
Trump’s remarks clash with his efforts to limit immigration when he was in the White House, including those targeting visa programs that tech companies use to bring in thousands of skilled workers.
