Another Trump proposal?

[Jolly]

https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/politics/ap-trump-proposes-green-cards-for-foreign-grads-of-us-colleges-departing-from-anti-immigrant-rhetoric/

[Axtremus]

How do you feel about it?

[Jolly]

I support legal immigration, within certain limits.

I feel like this is an issue worthy of discussion.

[Jolly]

BTW, Trump has never been anti-immigration. He is against illegal immigration.

[jon-nyc]

This is a good idea but you’d have to police it to make sure fly by night degree green card factories don’t emerge.

[Axtremus]

@Jolly said in Another Trump proposal?:

I support legal immigration, within certain limits.

I feel like this is an issue worthy of discussion.

Yes, so worthy that Hillary Clinton proposed something similar back in 2016:
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/hillary-clinton-plans-to-staple-green-cards-on-stem-graduates-diplomas-1426008

[xenon]

@jon-nyc said in Another Trump proposal?:

This is a good idea but you’d have to police it to make sure fly by night degree green card factories don’t emerge.

This is where Canada is at right now.

[jon-nyc]

Also one wonders about unintended consequences. You already hear complaints about schools giving so many spots to Chinese and other foreigners who pay full freight.

How much would the demand increase if the degree came with a green card?

[jon-nyc]

I read a transcript of an interview he gave. He actually proposes it even for two year degrees.

So any foreigner can come in, do two years at a community college and get a green card?

Nah, that won’t be abused.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Another Trump proposal?:

This is a good idea but you’d have to police it to make sure fly by night degree green card factories don’t emerge.

And just like that, Trump University returns…

[Renauda]

@xenon said in Another Trump proposal?:

@jon-nyc said in Another Trump proposal?:

This is a good idea but you’d have to police it to make sure fly by night degree green card factories don’t emerge.

This is where Canada is at right now.

So true.

[Axtremus]

@Renauda said in Another Trump proposal?:

@xenon said in Another Trump proposal?:

@jon-nyc said in Another Trump proposal?:

This is a good idea but you’d have to police it to make sure fly by night degree green card factories don’t emerge.

This is where Canada is at right now.

So true.

Is this bad for Canada?

[Renauda]

@Axtremus

Yes, but only because provincial governments fail to regulate the private post secondary education institutions that take advantage of the opportunity and the Federal government issues student visas without question for registered foreign students to attend those facilities. The majority of those “schools” are exclusive to foreign students and the alleged credentials are at best, dubious.

Schemers, dreamers and thieves.