President Donald Trump’s campaign is recasting a pledge he made Thursday night to grant green cards to all foreign nationals who graduate from four-year universities and two-year community colleges.
“We are should To keep of largely Skilled Alumni Who can make important contribution To America… Who right I never have undercut American wage or “Workers,” spokeswoman Katherine Leavitt said in a statement.
The cleanup came after Trump met with four West Coast investors who could help him secure more support from domestic investors and the business community.
“It’s really sad to lose talent from some of the best universities, like Harvard and MIT, and some of the not-so-great universities,” he said. 4 Technology InvestorsThree of them are immigrants.
What I want to do, what I will do in the future, [ensure] I think that when you graduate from college, you should automatically get a green card as part of your diploma so you can stay. [legally] This also includes junior colleges in this country.
Anyone who graduates from college, whether it be a two-year or four-year program, or gets a PhD, should be able to stay in this country.
During the 2016 campaign and throughout his time in the White House, Trump periodically backed away from his America First, low-immigration policies, each time sparking protests from his base and prompting him and his staff to move back to the center.
Companies want to hire smart people [foreign students]and those people are being chased out of the country. We can’t do that,” he told TV host Laura Ingraham in January 2020. She rebuked him, saying:American companies have an insatiable appetite to bring in as much cheap labor as possible and drive down wages.”
The zigzag measures likely would have had no impact on congressional legislation, as Democrats, due to their hatred of President Trump, refused to make any significant compromises. But the White House’s business allies used this same zig-zag tactic to block several proposed regulations that would raise American pay by reducing immigration for white-collar workers.
Among the zigzags, Trump has blocked and deported many blue- and white-collar immigrants, for example by halting the flow of H-1B and L-1 visa foreign workers in 2020 and banning the Tennessee Valley Authority from hiring foreign workers. “He saved 2 million lives. [technology] “These are jobs that should have been outsourced and ultimately offshored,” Kevin Lin, founder of U.S. Tech Workers, told Breitbart News.
Overall, Trump’s immigration restrictions have forced companies to raise wages and invest in upgrades to productivity-boosting workplaces, such as slaughterhouses and factories.
As I always say, Trump is not a restrictionist. He is a typical Republican who says if it’s legal, it’s good, if it’s illegal, it’s bad, but he at least takes the illegal-if-bad part more seriously than most people. https://t.co/Yc6wjZBM91
— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) June 21, 2024
President Trump has been negotiating with investor groups in recent weeks, refusing to give them everything they want. For example, New York Times report On January 13, President Trump suggested that foreign college graduates should return home to contribute to their countries, and that only “the best and the brightest” would be allowed to stay.
Another person in the room said Trump was suggesting that highly skilled immigrants with an American education could succeed in America, or Or in your home countryHe said, The best and the most excellent It was needed to help America, the person said.
Moreover, some investors are actually opposed to Biden-style mass immigration and want more efforts to increase the productivity and income of American workers.
“We always [a] Decreasing population is a negative factor [economic] “Economic growth is critical to the growth of our countries,” BlackRock founder Larry Fink said at a pro-globalization event hosted by the World Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia in April.
But in conversations with leaders of these great developed countries, [such as China, and Japan] No one can enter a country with xenophobic, anti-immigration policies. [so they have] Robotics, AI and technology will develop rapidly in these countries with declining populations. All the promise of transforming productivity. Most of us would think so. [emphasis added] Even if the population declines, we will be able to improve the standard of living of the country and individuals.
But during a meeting with four investors on June 20, Trump ignored Fink’s proposal to cut immigration and went further than he had previously said.
The story I know is [foreign students] They had graduated from top universities and colleges and were eager to stay. They had plans for their companies and concepts. [so] They go back to India, they go back to China, they run the same basic companies in those places, they employ thousands of people and they become billion-dollar millionaires.
And the bigger example is, you need a talent pool to work in a company. Great companies need great people. They need great people. And we [home] Bright people, people who graduated from college, people who were top of their class at the best universities.
We have to be able to recruit and retain this talent, and that was a huge problem, because even people who graduated at the top of their class couldn’t even get a deal. [the graduate is] You will be able to stay in the country. It will be over on the first day.
“That’s great, that’s great,” he replied. Chamath PalihapitiyaBorn in Sri Lanka, he later moved from Canada to become an executive at Facebook and then to a California investment firm.
I said, “Oh, that’s great.” David SachsBorn in South Africa, he grew up in Tennessee, attended Stanford University, and became an investor in technology startups.I I think we all wholeheartedly agree with that. Those of us in the technology industry understand how important that is.”
President Trump’s staff quickly issued damage control statements to reporters.
Press Secretary to President Trumptranslation:On his latest immigration proposal, he says it would apply only to the “most thoroughly vetted” college graduates and would not lower wages. pic.twitter.com/BWe5F1Yhcb
— Gram Slattery (@G_Slattery) June 20, 2024
Immigration Economics
A policy of issuing green cards to foreign graduates would quickly create a huge pipeline of poor, desperate, low-skilled, hard-working foreign graduates whose influx would do as much harm to ordinary Americans as Canada’s mass immigration program is destroying its economy.
But investors make huge profits from cheap labor. For every $1 saved in labor costs at a startup, it can generate $20 in stock market gains.
Cash-strapped investors need lots of talented young people to develop technology faster than their domestic and international rivals. American universities churn out hundreds of thousands of talented Americans who then get better job offers from banks, universities and Fortune 500 companies.
President Joe Biden has been keen to provide cheap labour to West Coast investors since 2021. For instance, he has provided a ton of additional white-collar workers to West Coast investors through various means.
These routes include the Optional Practical Training Work Permit for Foreign Graduates, the L-1 program for foreign employees of international companies, and the H-1B, J-1, and TN programs for foreign graduates. It also allows companies to hire foreign graduates who entered on B-1/B-2 tourist visas or who have overstayed their visas. On June 18, Biden promised to issue work permits to 100,000 illegal immigrants with college degrees.
As a result, investors and CEOs are firing American employees, ignoring American job seekers, and hiring low-wage Indian immigrants to staff their companies.
In 2018, we put up ads in San Francisco BART stations alerting tech workers to the fact that the companies they work for see them as “overpaid, unearned, and disposable.” They were outraged.
Don’t tell me it wasn’t… pic.twitter.com/A9z7eU6Q6K
— US Tech Workers (@USTechWorkers) May 3, 2024
Biden’s influx of white-collar immigrants is helping investors and CEOs reduce the salaries they pay to U.S. college graduates.
The immigrant population from India is huge. Get a job From an American graduate.
For example, just in 2022, Approximately 8 million Indians By contrast, fewer than 4 million Americans will turn 18 in 2022.
