Trump promises green card for foreign graduates

Former US president Donald Trump shared his plan to grant green cards to foreign graduates from US colleges.

Experts see the move as an apparent softening of his typically hard-line view on immigration, a key election issue.

The remarks were made in a podcast days after President Joe Biden announced a citizenship pathway for immigrants married to US nationals.

The former US president told All-In podcast: “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.”

In the US, a green card is the commonly used name for a permanent resident card, which is a step toward citizenship.

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

When asked if he would promise to help import the brightest around the world to the US,  Trump replied: “I do promise.”

“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,” he continued. “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,” he further said.

Trump said that the US forms required smart people. 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.

Trump vowed that is going to end on day one.