Donald Trump tried to appear somewhat moderate by vowing to give green cards to foreign students who graduated college, but his campaign had to scrap that plan quickly when his racist base objected.
Politico: “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,” Trump said in an episode on the All-In podcast, which is hosted by several venture capitalists. He floated the idea after being asked by a host if he would promise to “give us ability to import the best and brightest around the world to America.”
Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, immediately called his plan “a cockamamie proposal” that would unleash a “firehose of foreign cash” by effectively “stapling a green card to the diploma” of any US college graduate.
Trump's boast quickly wilted in about as long as a bird flaps its wings.
