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Should foreign nationals who get a degree from a US college or university automatically receive a green card?

This would include 2-year, 4-year, and post-graduate degrees.

Posted - Mon at 10:05 AM
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  • 44366
    They should receive a one way plane ticket to where they came from.
      July 1, 2024 10:46 AM MDT
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  • 1442
    Why even educate them, right? 

    More seriously, can't they contribute, when they're already well-adapted graduates who like it there? I'm not saying it should be that easy to get a green card--but, to be fair, it isn't.
      July 2, 2024 12:31 PM MDT
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  • 17490
    Absolutely not.
      July 1, 2024 1:29 PM MDT
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  • 10137
    I was really surprised when Trump said he would implement that policy on day one. I have a feeling that he will reconsider. 
      July 2, 2024 7:41 PM MDT
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  • 16365
    Automatically, no. It should make it easier to assimilate should they meet the other criteria, however. I feel the same way about foreign nationals who earn a degree at Australian universities. You don't get to jump the queue.
      July 2, 2024 1:04 AM MDT
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  • 10137
    Trump was a guest on a podcast, where he said "What I want to do and what I will do is 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, and that includes junior colleges, too." It was in response to a comment about the need for more skilled workers. 
      July 2, 2024 8:04 PM MDT
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  • 16365
    Including "Mexican rapists" and people from "sh*thole countries"? (Before this gets moderated, I'm quoting him directly).
      July 3, 2024 4:55 AM MDT
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  • 33038
    There is a reason all migrant females past puberty are told to get on birth control before making the trip to the US border....."someone is doing the raping."

    Merit based  system is what we need....anything else drives down wages for non college required jobs. This post was edited by my2cents at July 3, 2024 5:20 AM MDT
      July 3, 2024 5:18 AM MDT
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  • 16365
    Trump stated that they all were. He actually said that.
    By that logic, as Jeffrey Dahmer was American, all Americans are cannibalistic serial killers.
      July 3, 2024 5:23 AM MDT
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  • 33038
    No he did not.  "They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
     
     

    But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting.

    This post was edited by my2cents at July 3, 2024 8:23 AM MDT
      July 3, 2024 8:22 AM MDT
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  • 10137
    Including those who go to a bogus two-year college and get a degree in underwater basket-weaving.
      July 3, 2024 5:24 AM MDT
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    7543
    No way hosea. 
      July 2, 2024 6:16 PM MDT
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  • 10137
    Agreed. Even though Trump said he would do it, I think he may not have thought it through. 
      July 2, 2024 7:50 PM MDT
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  • 2984
    Not thinking things through seems to be Trump's usual modus operandi.  Rather than green carding foreign nationals due to lack of skilled American workers, perhaps he should consider making it easier for those here legally to obtain an education in those skilled areas without going into hock for the rest of their lives.
      July 3, 2024 5:03 AM MDT
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  • 7543
    Well said. 
      July 3, 2024 5:12 AM MDT
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  • 10137
    All those Americans who go into debt for the education, will have to compete for jobs with grads from countries where the pay is lower and who will accept lower salaries. 
      July 3, 2024 5:28 AM MDT
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  • 33038
    And this is why we want a secure border it drives down wages for everyone....
      July 3, 2024 2:34 PM MDT
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  • 33038
    Nothing should be automatic but it should certainly give them an advantage in deciding who gets a green card. 
      July 3, 2024 5:12 AM MDT
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  • 10137
    So, no change then.
      July 3, 2024 5:38 AM MDT
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