Despite his administration’s record of blocking high-skilled immigrants, Donald Trump said he favored giving green cards to all foreign graduates of U.S. universities. His statement during a podcast interview gained significant attention. During four years as president, Trump never proposed increasing the admission of college-educated immigrants or awarding automatic green cards to all international students graduating from U.S. universities. His administration enacted numerous restrictions on H-1B visa holders and employment-based immigrants, including prohibiting their entry in 2020. Expected opposition from his immigration advisers and other factors make it unlikely that, if elected, Trump will pass into law or pursue as a serious legislative initiative granting green cards to all foreign graduates of U.S. universities.
The Podcast Interview
On June 19, 2024, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taped a podcast interview with venture capitalists on the show All-In. “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,” said Trump. “And that includes junior colleges too, anybody graduates from a college. You go there for two years or four years.” Trump promised to address the issue on “day one.”
In response to media interest, the Trump campaign released a statement from press secretary Karoline Leavitt: “President Trump has outlined the most aggressive vetting process in U.S. history, to exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges. He believes, only after such vetting has taken place, we ought to keep the most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America. This would only apply to the most thoroughly vetted college graduates who would never undercut American wages or workers.”
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