Shouldn't we benefit from education of foreign students?
By Patricia Lopez / Bloomberg Opinion
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump was so keen to retain foreigners who choose to study in the U.S. that he made an unusual pledge: “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,” he told the “All-In” podcast last June. “And that includes junior colleges.”
It was a surprising promise, not only because of Trump’s long history of anti-immigration rhetoric and policy but also because, well, it made sense. Foreign students attend college in the U.S. on temporary visas. Unless they can persuade an employer to hire them upon graduation, they typically have only a few months to leave the country.
If only Candidate Trump could get a meeting with President Trump. Maybe he could convince him that giving green cards to graduates who wish to stay in the U.S., and contribute their talents to the country that educated them, is a great deal — for America and for Donald Trump.
Instead, since taking office, the administration has embarked on a policy of canceling student visas over the smallest of infractions. Many students were unaware their visas had been yanked until they were arrested. In the space of a few months, more than 1,800 students at 280 colleges and universities had their visas revoked and were marked for deportation. They include Mahmoud Khalil of Columbia and Rumeysa Ozturk of Tufts, who were arrested for, respectively, demonstrating and writing against Israel’s actions against Palestinians, as well as Zapata Velasquez of the University of Florida, who was taken into ICE custody after being arrested for driving with an expired registration and unpaid traffic fines.
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bribery perhaps 🤔 