Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a podcast released on Thursday said that students graduating from U.S. colleges should get a green card to stay in the country, a proposal that runs counter to his hardline immigration stance.

During the All-In podcast hosted by Silicon Valley tech investors, angel investor Jason Calacanis told Trump that the U.S. needs to be able to legally retain more high-skilled workers, a major issue for the tech industry.

"Can you please promise us you will give us more ability to import the best and brightest around the world to America?" Calacanis said.

"I do promise," Trump said. "But I happen to agree, otherwise I wouldn't promise... You graduate from a college, 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."

A green card, also known as a permanent resident card, allows individuals the right to live and work permanently in the United States and is a step towards citizenship.

It was not clear if Trump was referring to all foreigners, including those who came to the United States illegally or overstayed their visas, or only those people on student visas.

Asked for comment, the Trump campaign said in a statement that only after "the most aggressive vetting process in U.S. history" would "the most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America" be able to stay.

One immigration advocate was not convinced by Trump's proposal.

"I almost have to laugh because his administration adopted multiple policies aiming to restrict student visas and make it harder for people to stay in the country after graduating," said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the American Immigration Council.

Source: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-06-20/trump-says-foreign-college-graduates-should-automatically-get-green-cards

You have to undergo background checks etc

Forget sha, all politicians everywhere are the same. Promise you heaven and earth to get your vote.

Difference between us and them is that they have a system that keeps everyone in check with active participation of the citizens.

Unlike here where tribalism and individualism reigns supreme and our politicians took advantage of it and are milking it to the last drop.

Learnt he said he was going to do massive deportation, his support dropped now em don do u turn

No be to graduate, na to enter the US be the koko

Soulsymbol99:
Learnt he said he was going to do massive deportation, his support dropped now em don do u turn

Hahaha Mad People everywhere. They are all the same ..

The same Donald Trump that spent lots of money to build a fence on the US-Mexico border will certainly not do this. Likewise, Biden has also promised to regularise the stay of all undocumented immigrants in the US if he wins.

The thing is, American voters have a tough choice to make in this election because they will have to choose between one very old president who always falls like a baby and one garrulous ex-president full of drama. However, I don't see Trump beating Biden in this election.

😂👍

Soulsymbol99:
Learnt he said he was going to do massive deportation, his support dropped now em don do u turn

michlins:
Forget sha, all politicians everywhere are the same. Promise you heaven and earth to get your vote.

Difference between us and them is that they have a system that keeps everyone in check with active participation of the citizens.

Unlike here where tribalism and individualism reigns supreme and our politicians took advantage of it and are milking it to the last drop.

Yes, what helps America is that they have strong institutions whose heads understand that they must be loyal to their country, not their president. In Nigeria, we have sycophants trying so hard to please the president because they know that once the president protects them, they can do anything and get away with it. You cannot try that nonsense in America. So, even if America has mad men as presidents, it doesn't matter because heads of these institutions who genuinely love their country know what to do.

In America, there's real separation of power among the three arms of government. There are some laws the executives will try to enforce, the judiciary will fling it out of the window. Try that with a Nigerian president and he will use the DSS to raid Supreme Court justices' residence or twist the constitution just to kick out the CJN. This our country na big joke.

Trump wey no like migrants

Who still believes Trump in 2024 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Dude will say anything to win even when ANTI IMMIGRANTS is engraved on his forehead.

He will reverse back soon, cos majority of his white supremacy base will discredit him for that.

Except he will have to select countries that will benefit and that will expose his hate for Blacks.

Same Trump that plans to end birthright citizenship 🤣🤣🤣

Another door opening. Influx of young immigrants if he kept his promise

Soulsymbol99:
Learnt he said he was going to do massive deportation, his support dropped now em don do u turn

After promising to deport enmasse, they told him he fuçked up now he is changing the narrative. Trump hates immigrants and will never change.

Is it Joe that love immigrant, person wa hate black right from his time with college law.
Abge trump is not a know politician who twist talk to help his ambition. Given graduate green card is a plus coz they are ur skilled workers, abi u think other country who sponsored does ppl to their to learn will be happy u took what they invested on.

idolda:
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a podcast released on Thursday said that students graduating from U.S. colleges should get a green card to stay in the country, a proposal that runs counter to his hardline immigration stance.

During the All-In podcast hosted by Silicon Valley tech investors, angel investor Jason Calacanis told Trump that the U.S. needs to be able to legally retain more high-skilled workers, a major issue for the tech industry.

"Can you please promise us you will give us more ability to import the best and brightest around the world to America?" Calacanis said.

"I do promise," Trump said. "But I happen to agree, otherwise I wouldn't promise... You graduate from a college, 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."

A green card, also known as a permanent resident card, allows individuals the right to live and work permanently in the United States and is a step towards citizenship.

It was not clear if Trump was referring to all foreigners, including those who came to the United States illegally or overstayed their visas, or only those people on student visas.

Asked for comment, the Trump campaign said in a statement that only after "the most aggressive vetting process in U.S. history" would "the most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America" be able to stay.

One immigration advocate was not convinced by Trump's proposal.

"I almost have to laugh because his administration adopted multiple policies aiming to restrict student visas and make it harder for people to stay in the country after graduating," said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the American Immigration Council.

Source: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-06-20/trump-says-foreign-college-graduates-should-automatically-get-green-cards

Antoeni:
Donald Trump said he wants to grant green cards to foreign graduates from US colleges, in an apparent softening of his typically hard-line view on immigration, a key election issue.

The Republican candidate made the remarks in a podcast published Thursday, days after President Joe Biden announced a citizenship pathway for immigrants married to US nationals, counterbalancing his recent crackdown on illegal border crossings.

“What I want to do and what I will do is, you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma a green card to be able to stay in this country,” Trump told the All-In podcast.

A green card is the commonly used name for a permanent resident card in the United States and a step toward citizenship.


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Trump said this should include “anybody who graduates from a college,” including those who complete two-year programs, known as junior colleges, and doctoral graduates.

Asked initially on the podcast if he would promise to help import the “best and the brightest around the world to America,” Trump replied: “I do promise.”

He added: “I know of stories where people graduated from a top college, or from a college, and they desperately want to stay here… 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,” Trump said.

He also said that US companies need “smart people,” adding “They can’t even make a deal with a company because they don’t think they’re going to be able to stay in the country.”

“That is going to end on day one,” Trump added.

During Trump’s 2017-2021 presidency, he ordered the construction of a wall on the US-Mexico border and implemented a travel ban on people from mostly Muslim countries.

His comments came after Democrat opponent Biden on Tuesday relaxed visa rules for around half a million spouses of US nationals, making it easier for them to obtain citizenship.

The president also simplified the process for migrants who came to the United States illegally as children — known as “Dreamers” — to get work visas if they’ve graduated college and have a “high-skilled job offer.”

Biden — often accused of being soft on immigration by Republicans — earlier in June signed an executive order barring migrants who enter the United States illegally from claiming asylum when numbers surge past 2,500 in a day.

https://punchng.com/trump-promises-foreign-graduates-green-card/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

The man is a convicted felon.

Even the project 2025 his goons are pushing wouldn't even allow this.

The people that believe the convicted felon are just people full of hate who hate the people that the criminal hates. There's no love when it comes to this convicted felon.

So why must you believe a convicted felon with so much entanglements to handle the most powerful seat in the world.

He wasnt a convict in 2016 but he is a convicted felon now. The Jury said the felon committed crimes.

Let's grow up bro

And in btw, it is only President Biden that can do this considering his recent immigration actions concerning dreamers and immigrant spouses of American citizens.

Republicans would never do this! They are still fighting student loans for God's sake.

In convicted felon trump's time, he called you guys shitholes and prioritized immigration from Sweden, Norway over the said shitholes.

His maga movement hates you people, so it's only an idiot that will believe anything that comes out of this convicted felon's mouth.

Hyperchi:
Is it Joe that love immigrant, person wa hate black right from his time with college law.
Abge trump is not a know politician who twist talk to help his ambition. Given graduate green card is a plus coz they are ur skilled workers, abi u think other country who sponsored does ppl to their to learn will be happy u took what they invested on.

You don't sound coherent, so who would think a supporter of a convicted felon makes sense?

tommy589:
Another door opening. Influx of young immigrants if he kept his promise

Convicted felon trump doesn't keep his promises except it's something that favors his business or a packet of wealthy CEOs, wallstreet, fox news and constituents of republicans.

And he wouldn't have to bother, coz he's losing so bad this fall.

Soulsymbol99:
Learnt he said he was going to do massive deportation, his support dropped now em don do u turn

Yes he said he is going to deport illegal immigrants massively. If half of all the illegal immigrants entering the US daily enter Nigeria, you and me would have started carrying placards. All he wants is for people to come into the US legally through visa. Me and you will queue for US visa at their embassy, get our biometrics done and pictures taken before being granted visa or denied but illegal immigrants simply walk into the US without biometrics, picture taken etc. This is the US we are talking about who has amassed enemies for itself by putting their nose in other people's business.

When many of these illegals get in, they can't work and some of them start committing crime to survive. Govt doesn't have their biometrics and pictures in their system so they are difficult to track down. Some of them even rape and kill a Nursing girl, some notorious terrorists on FBI wanted list have been arrested inside the US (they crossed in illegally) https://www.azernews.az/region/227471.html

The Press are the problem, whenever Trump talks about illegal immigrants, they remove the word illegal and just say immigrants making it look like those who migrated legally into the US

SoNature:
The same Donald Trump that spent lots of money to build a fence on the US-Mexico border will certainly not do this. Likewise, Biden has also promised to regularise the stay of all undocumented immigrants in the US if he wins.

The thing is, American voters have a tough choice to make in this election because they will have to choose between one very old president who always falls like a baby and one garrulous ex-president full of drama. However, I don't see Trump beating Biden in this election.

I agree, Americans have a hard choice to make in November. Joe Biden spent 3years destroying the walls Trump built to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the US and just few months to election he announced an executive order preventing illegal immigrants from getting Green Cards which was the promise of Trump which clearly show he is desperate. Trump is also desperate and decided to announce this one. I just love election periods, it humble politicians lol

Obrigardo:


You don't sound coherent, so who would think a supporter of a convicted felon makes sense?

When they rig the system to make him a convict, what do u expect his base to think,
When the govt open up to 5 legal case on a person and pick who so ever to help get the job done what do u expect his base to think.
How many was open for Hillary