Donald J. Trump stated he would push for a program that may mechanically give inexperienced playing cards to international school college students in America after they graduate, a reversal from restrictions he enacted as president on immigration by high-skilled staff and college students to the US.
Showing with the host David Sacks, a Silicon Valley investor who backs the previous president’s 2024 marketing campaign, on a podcast that aired Thursday, Mr. Trump repeated his frequent criticism of excessive ranges of immigration as an “invasion of our nation.” He was then pressed by Jason Calacanis, one other investor who hosts the podcast, to “promise us you’ll give us extra skill to import the perfect and brightest all over the world to America.”
“I do promise, however I occur to agree,” Mr. Trump stated, including “what I’ll do is — you graduate from a university, I feel it’s best to get mechanically, as a part of your diploma, a inexperienced card to have the ability to keep on this nation, and that features junior faculties.”
Mr. Trump prompt that he had wished to enact such a coverage whereas in workplace however “then we needed to resolve the Covid drawback.” The Trump administration invoked the pandemic to enact lots of the immigration restrictions that officers had wished to place in place earlier in Mr. Trump’s time period.
Mr. Trump additionally lamented “tales the place folks graduated from a high school or from a university, they usually desperately wished to remain right here, that they had a plan for an organization, an idea, they usually can’t — they return to India, they return to China, they do the identical fundamental firm in these locations. And so they change into multibillionaires.”
Mr. Trump’s feedback stood in distinction to the immigration coverage he adopted whereas in workplace and had been a direct overture to rich enterprise leaders whom he’s courting as donors and supporters of his marketing campaign. Mr. Sacks hosted a fund-raiser this month for the previous president in San Francisco, the beating coronary heart of the liberal tech trade, that raised about $12 million for Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign.
Mr. Trump had at instances sought to reform the nation’s immigration system to cut back family-based immigration and to prioritize immigrants who had been rich, who had priceless work expertise or who had been extremely educated.
However throughout his time period as president, Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda included restrictions on inexperienced playing cards, visa packages, refugee resettlement and different types of authorized immigration, considerably lowering the variety of lawful everlasting residents getting into the nation.
He started his presidency by signing an government order that banned vacationers from seven predominantly Muslim international locations and later embraced a proposal to chop authorized immigration by half. All through his presidency, Mr. Trump assailed the H-1B visa program, favored by tech corporations as a technique to rent international expert staff, as a “theft of American prosperity.”
