Trump is right: Foreign graduates should get green cards

Published June 21, 2024 4:51pm ET



Despite facing friendly fire from so-called national conservatives over a recent interview with the venture capitalists on the All-In podcast, former President Donald Trump’s latest insistence that foreign students be compelled to stay in the country after attending an American college exemplifies the former president’s pro-growth strain of “America First.”

“What I want to do and what I will do it: 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 — anybody who graduates from a college,” the presumptive Republican nominee said on the podcast. “We need brilliant people.”

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