Contrary to his anti-immigrant stance, US presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested Green Cards (Permanent Residency) in the USA for foreign students graduating from US colleges, a policy that may help Indian students in the USA immensly.

The suggestions by the former president were made on a podcast that aired on June 20.

He said that graduates from any college — even junior colleges — should get an automatic Green Card upon completing their graduation. Trump also reportedly emphasised the need to retain talented individuals in the country to support the economy.

'They go back to India...'

“I know of stories where people graduated from a top college, or from a college, and they desperately want to stay here… and they can’t. “They go back to India, they go back to China. They do the same basic company in those places and they become multi-billionaires employing thousands and thousands of people,” Trump said.

This comes days after Trump promised the ‘largest deportation operation’ in US history if he was re-elected.

Trump’s campaign secretary, Karoline Leavitt, however, said that such implementation would come with an aggressive vetting process, excluding all ‘communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, and America haters’, reported US media.

A Green Card offers permanent residency to the holders in the US, with permits to live and work indefinitely. It is also a pathway to get US citizenship.

Notably, Chinese and Indian students made up a significant number of international students in the USA, so implementation of the said policy would benefit them the most.

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