Trump advocates for automatic green cards for foreign graduates

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pledged to give automatic Green Cards to foreign students who graduate from US colleges. In a podcast, Trump said that the move was needed to prevent bright students from returning to their home countries like India and China, where they become multibillionaires.It is a kind of volte-face for Donald Trump, who has had a hard anti-immigrant stance, ahead of the November election."Anybody graduates from a college you go in there for two years or four years if you graduate or you get a doctorate degree from a college you should be able to stay in this country," Trump said.
It was not clear if Trump was referring to all foreigners, including those who came to the United States illegally or overstayed their visas, or only those people on student visas."Let me just tell you that it's so sad when we lose people from Harvard, MIT, from the greatest schools, and lesser schools that are phenomenal schools also. And what I wanted to do, and I would have done this, but then we had to solve the Covid problem because that came in and, you know, sort of dominated for a little while, as you perhaps know,” Trump said in response.A green card, officially known as a Permanent Resident Card, is a document issued by the US government that grants the holder permanent resident status.