Republican Party candidate donald trumpwas forced to make a clarification on its promise to automatically grant permanent resident cards, also known as Green Cards, to all foreign students who graduate in the United States.
The former president’s proposal is that when a foreigner graduates he obtains “automaticallyas part of the diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country“he said on The All-In podcast. “That includes high schools, too,” Trump added.
During the interview, the Republican candidate expressed his frustration with how some American graduates leave the country and they start businesses in China or India because they can’t get visas to stay.
The initiative did not go down well with several organizations. The executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, Mark Krikorian, told the New York Post that this was “a crazy proposal”.
“If someone gets a doctorate from a university in a hard science, I will personally go to their house and give them a green card,” Krikorian said. “The problem is that any foreign university graduate, even from a fake two-year master’s program or gender studies, would get a green card”.
The president of the conservative Immigration Accountability Project, Chris Chmielenski, said the plan “would reduce wages for all Americans, increase job competition, particularly for recent college graduates, and raise a threat to national security”.
“US immigration policy should serve the interests of all Americans, not the interests of elite business leaders seeking cheap labor,” Chmielenski said.
After the criticism, a statement from Trump’s electoral command noted that the candidate “has made it clear that the first day of his new administration will close the border and will make the greatest effort mass deportation of illegal aliens in history“.
He also said that the former president’s proposal would include a “aggressive investigation process” that “would exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters and those who hate the United States”.
Criticism of Joe Biden’s campaign
From the Democratic campaign tent they also referred to the promise and the clarification similar to Trump’s regret. “We cannot allow Trump to blatantly misinform and lie to our community like this, only for his campaign to later conveniently deny it with a role that many times, among so many things, goes unnoticed.“, the spokesperson for Hispanic Media Biden-Harris 2024, Maca Casado, stated before this medium.
