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Trump proposes green cards for foreign grads of US colleges, departing from anti-immigrant rhetoric
KNWA Fox 24 ^ | Posted: Jun 20, 2024 / 06:57 PM CDT Updated: Jun 20, 2024 / 06:57 PM CDT | ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON

Posted on 06/20/2024 5:58:58 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

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To: imabadboy99

As someone who works with some of dei grads in healthcare I’m not sure it’s not a bad idea.


21 posted on 06/20/2024 6:30:05 PM PDT by arkfreepdom
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To: ConservativeMind

There’s a problem. We educate someone, then we send their talents to another country, instead of keeping them here.


22 posted on 06/20/2024 6:30:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: DSH

Well, bye.


23 posted on 06/20/2024 6:31:05 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Zhang Fei

I am generally in favor of this , unpopular as it may be here.

And for good reasons

Especially in favor of retaining and recruiting standout foreign students with advanced technical degrees in STEM disciplines.

These are some of the best and brightest people in the world and they are vital to Americas technological future.

They do not usually compete with Americans for jobs because they often are pioneering new technology and manufacturing methods and there is no one else in the world who has their knowledge and skills . Thus they are more often than not adding to our economic growth and building good paying jobs for native Americans, not stealing jobs from native Americans

They are also usually very pro America and they wish to assimilate and be part of our country

IMHO, Tump gets it right on this one, assuming the program is properly structured to recruit outstanding talent - so thumbs up to the orange dude


24 posted on 06/20/2024 6:32:44 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: DSH

“I guess Ramaswamy got to him.”

Maybe. I was so hoping he wouldn’t be taken in by the shtick.


25 posted on 06/20/2024 6:34:03 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: Zhang Fei

I think it’s a good idea to keep the brightest students in the USA. Perhaps only for STEM degrees. Perhaps only Master’s degrees.

Strong background check, of course.

It’s better that then educating them, sending them away, and then potentially competing with them.


26 posted on 06/20/2024 6:34:11 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: rdcbn1

Exactly my point. Some American dei grads are really weak. Check out the failing rate at ucla medical school.


27 posted on 06/20/2024 6:34:31 PM PDT by arkfreepdom
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To: Shady

Yes, something!


28 posted on 06/20/2024 6:34:55 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: Shady

Exactly. Maybe to productive people like engineers, but certainly not to “studies” people who hate America. A college degree does not automatically mean that person is going to useful to America. More than likely, they majored in Hate-America Studies and will foment revolution here.


29 posted on 06/20/2024 6:35:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: MV=PY

They’re probably needed back in their home country more than here. If they go home and make things better, maybe they’ll stop sneaking across our border. We have too many foreign born here now.


30 posted on 06/20/2024 6:38:39 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Zhang Fei

Wait till you hear this from his own mouth. Media would love to get MAGA folks riled.. Against Trump.


31 posted on 06/20/2024 6:39:41 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie ( )
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To: Zhang Fei
Trump proposes green cards for foreign grads of US colleges, departing from anti-immigrant rhetoric

Depends on the degree. For medical students, engineering students, math and hard sciences - yeah, if they graduate in the top 10%. For all other majors, hard no. We don't need foreign born humanities majors - we have enough home-grown idiots with useless degrees.
32 posted on 06/20/2024 6:40:02 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Zhang Fei

I can see wanting to keep foreign talent here, but not everyone who graduates from college represents talent we want to keep. Run it based on need and with stringent background checks. Don’t treat green cards like participation awards.


33 posted on 06/20/2024 6:47:14 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: arkfreepdom

I’d say this is a move in the right direction.


34 posted on 06/20/2024 6:52:10 PM PDT by Chengdu54 (This is a time for which the 2nd Amendment was intended. )
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To: Zhang Fei

Universities make more money from foreign students. Consequently, they lower the academic requirements for them, since they are a cash cow. Giving them green cards at graduation is a very bad idea.


35 posted on 06/20/2024 6:52:43 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: ConservativeMind

“NO! They are already getting special treatment for jobs here.”

I agree in principle, but visit any engineering school today, and you’ll find 10% of the students being Americans. Smarter Americans now go into ‘finance’ and crap like that, very few will actually work towards a ‘hard’ degree.


36 posted on 06/20/2024 6:52:44 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Zhang Fei

Is Trump going to require the same from countries where US students graduate?


37 posted on 06/20/2024 6:55:06 PM PDT by Revel
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Bad idea . Foreign exchange students are largely scammers that colleges look the other way since they make more money off of them. I’m guessing some of the Silicon Valley types begged Trump to allow more invaders from India to come here.
Frankly the entire student visa program needs to be overhauled


38 posted on 06/20/2024 6:55:26 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Zhang Fei

They might get two-months of green card time for
1each year studied here
for which at least $10,000 tuition was paid.

The institution should be federal student loan eligible and must receive at least half of its tuition from non-governmental sources.

The degrees should be limited at first: BSEE, MD, DDS, nursing, etc.

For each year thereafter at least $6,000 of FICA tax must be prepaid (French-style) by the person’s employer at the beginning of the calendar year to get an extended time green card.


39 posted on 06/20/2024 6:57:36 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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The leftist media wants portray DJT as anti immigrant when he has actually always been anti illegal. The low number of properly visa holding foreign students compared to the flood of Democrat orchestrated illegals makes this a fine trade. While a good chunk of my ancestors have been here over three hundred years there is one fourth of my heritage that came from those 1895 to 1915 Swedes. So immigrant is not what I have a problem with — instead it is unvetted illegals in the giant flood from one region only.


40 posted on 06/20/2024 6:58:33 PM PDT by KC Burke
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