Donald Trump promised green accounts to all international students who graduate from US colleges on Thursday in a remarkable change from the policies he had pursued as president. During a audio, Trump said he would university policies where “you student from a university, I think you should get mechanically, as part of your certificate, a green card to be able to be in this country, and that includes young colleges”.
But hours after Trump’s spontaneous remarks, his plan officials tempered the comments, saying there would be an “aggressive screening process” that had “exclude all communists, extreme Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and open charges”, and that the policy may apply only to the “most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America”.
That would still open the doors to tens of thousands of qualified refugees, primarily from India and China, who come to the US for higher education. Almost 300, 000 students from India are currently studying at US universities and colleges, according to estimates, making up more than a million international individuals annually.
Trump appeared to be courting the software company group, who has long sought to simplify the immigration process to get more high-skilled workers who come to America as students and graduate into H1-B visas that allow limited stay in the US, in the” All- In” podcast held by David Sacks, a Silicon Valley investor who backs the former president’s 2024 campaign. But Trump’s nativist MAGA ( Make American Great Again ) base sees this as a betrayal of American workers.
While the next president frequently advocated for giving permanent residency to immigrants who are affluent and/or very educated, at the expense of family-based immigration, which also allows non-skilled or low-skilled immigrants to obtain a green card on the basis of family ties, his advisor Stephen Miller fashioned an immigration policy during the Trump presidency that restricted, among other things, a work- visa program for international students.
