Trump proposes granting residency to foreign graduates from US universities

MIAMI.- The ex-president Donald Trump said in an interview that he wants to grant cards residence automatic to foreign students who graduate from American universities. Trump was asked about plans for companies to be able to import the “best and brightest” in a podcast Wednesday with venture capitalists and technology investors called “All-In.”

“What I want to do and what I will do is for you to graduate from a university, and I think you should automatically get, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country. And that also includes junior colleges, anyone graduates from a college. You go there for two or four years,” she said, promising to address this concern from day one.

Immigration has been Trump’s signature issue during his bid to return to the White House in 2024. His suggestion is that he would offer green cards (documents that confer a path to U.S. citizenship) to potentially hundreds of thousands of foreign graduates, which would It would represent a radical expansion of the United States immigration system.

Trump seeks to reward talent

During the conversation with “All-In,” Trump blamed the coronavirus pandemic for not being able to implement these measures while he was president. He said he knows stories of people who graduate from top universities and want to stay in the United States, but are unable to obtain visas to do so, forcing them to return to their home countries, specifically naming India and China. He said they go on and become multimillionaires, employing thousands of workers.

“You need a group of people who work for your company,” Trump said. “And they have to be intelligent people. Not everyone can be less than intelligent. You need brilliant people.” “You need a group of people who work for your company,” Trump said. “And they have to be intelligent people. Not everyone can be less than intelligent. You need brilliant people.”

In a statement released hours after the podcast was released, campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “President Trump has outlined the most aggressive vetting process in American history, to exclude all communists.” , radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, those who hate America and public charges. He believes that only after that research has been conducted should we retain the most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America. “This would only apply to the most carefully vetted college graduates who would never undermine American wages or workers.”

Source: AP