Donald Trump, the former US president, has said he will grant Green Cards to migrants who graduate from US colleges as a means to giving them permanent residency and bolstering the US economic growth.
He made this known during a podcast interview with Silicon Valley tech investors on Thursday. Trump promised to make it easier to bring talent to the US and said anyone who graduates from a US college should be able to stay in the country.
“It’s so sad when we lose people from Harvard, MIT, the greatest schools, and lesser schools that are phenomenal schools also,” Trump said during an appearance on the All-In Podcast hosted by Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks and David Friedberg.
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“I think you should get, automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country and that includes junior colleges, too,” Trump added.
A green card gives individuals the right to live and work permanently in the US and offers a pathway to citizenship.
According to him, it’s unfair that these talents who can build up companies that could create job opportunities and employ thousands of Americans which would bolster the country’s economic potential are sent back to their native lands after studies.
“I know of stories where people graduate 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,” Trump said.
“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.”
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Trump, who once claimed migrants were “poisoning the blood of our country”, has pledged to undertake the largest deportation of undocumented migrants in US history if re-elected in November and has repeatedly attacked his Democratic rival, President Joe Biden, as being soft on immigration.
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