Donald Trump‘s automatic Green Card for foreign students graduated in America was not an off the top of his head idea. Trump indicated the policy at a business roundtable meeting last week where Apple CEO Tim Cook was present, Politico reported. “And when he talked about finding ways to keep American-educated talent at home, some top CEOs, like Apple’s Tim Cook, were seen nodding their heads,” the report said.
“When he spoke to the Business Roundtable last week, some of the titans of the tech industry seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when Trump appeared to support keeping high-skilled immigrants in the United States,” the report said.
Tim Cook has always been a staunch critic of Trump’s immigration policy as he terminated DACA, the Obama-era program that shielded some immigrants without documentation from being deported. In 2019, Apple moved the court and said it employed 443 dreamers who were protected by DACA. “Every one of these talented Dreamers should have the same opportunities as Steve did to create, work hard, and help change the world for the better,” Apple said at that time.
Come 2024, Donald Trump has taken a considerate view of the immigration situation and announced on “The all-in podcast” that foreign nationals who graduate from US colleges and universities should automatically be given a Green Card upon graduation so that the best brains are retained in the US. He mentioned India and China as he rued that fact that bright students from US universities go back to India and China without getting a Green Card in the US and then they become multibillionaires, generate huge employment.
Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a statement after Trump’s claim explaining that there will an aggressive vetting process to select the candidates for the Green card– excluding all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges. Only the most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America will get the automatic Green Card.
1 million international students — mostly from India, China
The State Department estimated that the United States hosted roughly 1 million international students in the academic year that ended in 2022 — a majority of whom came from China and India. If the automatic Green Card proposal did not have any rider, US would have to absorb 1 million students as citizens every year.
“When he spoke to the Business Roundtable last week, some of the titans of the tech industry seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when Trump appeared to support keeping high-skilled immigrants in the United States,” the report said.
Tim Cook has always been a staunch critic of Trump’s immigration policy as he terminated DACA, the Obama-era program that shielded some immigrants without documentation from being deported. In 2019, Apple moved the court and said it employed 443 dreamers who were protected by DACA. “Every one of these talented Dreamers should have the same opportunities as Steve did to create, work hard, and help change the world for the better,” Apple said at that time.
Come 2024, Donald Trump has taken a considerate view of the immigration situation and announced on “The all-in podcast” that foreign nationals who graduate from US colleges and universities should automatically be given a Green Card upon graduation so that the best brains are retained in the US. He mentioned India and China as he rued that fact that bright students from US universities go back to India and China without getting a Green Card in the US and then they become multibillionaires, generate huge employment.
Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a statement after Trump’s claim explaining that there will an aggressive vetting process to select the candidates for the Green card– excluding all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges. Only the most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America will get the automatic Green Card.
1 million international students — mostly from India, China
The State Department estimated that the United States hosted roughly 1 million international students in the academic year that ended in 2022 — a majority of whom came from China and India. If the automatic Green Card proposal did not have any rider, US would have to absorb 1 million students as citizens every year.
