If Re-Elected, Donald Trump Will Offer Green Card To Foreign Students Upon Graduation

Donald Trump put forward new immigration proposal that would benefit foreign students including Indians. The former US President, who is vying to return to power by wining the presidential election due this November, has softened his staunch remarks against immigrants. He promised that if he is re-elected as the President, foreign students who graduate from US colleges will automatically get Green Card, which allows permanent residency in the US.

Trump said that these students later become multibillionaires after they return to their home countries like India and China, and he sought to reap the same benefit in US.

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Immigration and deportation of illegal immigrants are among the key issues for the US election campaign, as President Joe Biden and Donald Trump seek to return to the post.

Bear in mind that Trump had earlier this year branded illegal immigrants as “animals, not humans” during an election campaign. However, in a recent podcast, he said that he always supported a merit-based legal immigration system.

In the ‘All-In’ podcast, the former president said that he plans to offer Green Cards automatically as part of a diploma to students who graduate from a US college, which will help them continue their stay in the country.

Notably, the podcast was hosted by Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, all of whom are venture capitalists and immigrants.

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“Stories where people graduated from a top college or from a college, and they desperately wanted to stay here, they had a plan for a company, a concept, and they can’t – they go back to India, they go back to China, they do the same basic company in those places…and they become multi-billionaires employing thousands and thousands of people, and it could have been done here,” said Trump during the podcast. He added that America loses people from Harvard, MIT, and other great schools.

Stressing on getting Green Cards for the people students who received higher education degree in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) field, he said, “We force the brilliant people, the people that graduate from college, the people that are number one in their class from the best colleges, you have to be able to recruit these people and keep the people.”

Notably, the US has over a million foreign students as of 2022-23 academic year, and the figure is only expected to go up.