Former President Trump’s campaign has walked back his promise to “automatically” issue green cards to immigrants after graduating from college.
“President Trump has made clear that on the first day of his new administration, he will close the borders and initiate the historic Largest mass deportation of illegal immigrants.”
The comments came after Trump appeared on the “All-in Podcast” last week, in which the former president outlined an idea to issue green cards and diplomas to all foreign college graduates.
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“You graduate from college, I think you should automatically get a green card as part of your diploma to be able to stay in this country, and that includes junior college,” Trump said during the appearance.
The proposal met with immediate pushback, with Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, telling the New York Post that such a handout was “a stupid proposal” that would be achieved by “stapled on the diploma.” A green card” to facilitate “a large amount of foreign cash” to an American college graduate.
“If someone got a PhD in a hard science from a university, I would personally drive to their house and give them a green card,” Krikorian said. “The problem is any foreign university graduate, even one from a bogus two-year master’s program or gender studies [major]will obtain a green card.
This criticism was echoed by Chris Chmielenski, chairman of the conservative Immigration Accountability Project, who argued that such a plan “would lower wages for all Americans and increase competition for jobs, especially for immigrants from the Republic of Congo.” graduates and pose a threat to national security.
Conservative critics slammed Trump’s proposal. (Donald Trump 2024 Campaign/Files)
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“U.S. immigration policy must serve the interests of all Americans, not the interests of elite business leaders seeking cheap labor,” he said.
The Biden campaign, meanwhile, took aim at the comments, telling Fox News Digital that his proposals represent “empty promises,” especially to the “countless people who have been permanently harmed by his first term.”
“Every chance Donald Trump gets in office, he will make it his mission to break up immigrant families for his own political gain,” campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said. He went even further during his term, not only publicly echoing Nazi rhetoric about immigration but also promising brutal policies such as rounding up immigrants and placing them in mass internment camps.”
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But Levitt sought to clarify the president’s remarks in a statement, noting that such a program “would only apply to the most thoroughly vetted college graduates and would never lower American wages or the wages of workers.”
“He believed that only after such a review should we retain the most skilled graduates who could make significant contributions to the United States,” Levitt said. “That would only apply to college graduates who have gone through the most thorough vetting, They will never lower American wages or workers’ wages.”
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The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
