Second ('Third') Trump Presidency Thread

TRUMP ON HIGH SKILLED IMMIGRATION"As far as the students, it's 500,000 students. They come, good students. I could tell them, "I don't want any students." It's a very insulting thing to say to a country. They would then immediately go out and start building universities all over China.But if you don't have those students—good students, by the way—if you don't... and we do another thing, you know, if they're good and they want to stay in America, we will give them a green card and things like that. I'm, you know, and that's not only them but other countries.But if you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it. And you know, the ones that won't be hurt are the top schools. The top schools will do fine. But your lower schools, your lower... the ones that don't do quite as well, those students... they'll be dying all over the place.I frankly think that it's good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it's good. Not everybody agrees with me. And it doesn't sound like a very conservative position. And I'm as conservative... I'm a conservative guy. I'm really a common-sense guy, I think more than a conservative guy. I think MAGA is common sense. You know, people understand we want strong borders, we want strong military, we want good education, we want low interest rates, we want... you know, we want..

.HANNITY: But I think people would argue they worry about do they have nefarious intentions...

TRUMP: Sure, no, we worry about that. And honestly, you know, they do things to us and we do things to them. It's a very, very fine line, the whole thing with students. So, they have 500,000 students, and our university system does great, you know, it does great. You want to screw it up? Take a half a million students out and you're going to see bankruptcies at the lower end of good colleges but they're not known or whatever. You're going to have a lot of problems.So, it's something I'm always looking at. But it's a very insulting thing to tell a country, "We don't want your people in our schools." I mean, it really is. Now, I'll have people say, "Oh, that's a terrible thing," you know. It is. It's a very insulting thing. And it's very interesting. It's something... didn't come up today, came up last time. Came up last time. But I will tell you that school systems don't want that to happen because you won't have much of a school system.
 
I'm glad the president is aware of this. At the school I teach at, the undergrads are mostly American. The grad students are mostly Asian. They pay full freight. In doing so they subsidize American students. Fifteen years ago, the Asian students were mostly Chinese. Now they are mostly Indian. China has greatly expanded and improved their university system. It has already happened. That's why their numbers coming here are greatly reduced. India will probably do the same over the next couple decades. Fortunately, there are still some countries with large populations who are likely to replace those Indian students coming over here. At my school, we see measurable numbers from Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa. I'm glad the president sees the benefits of this flow. The actions his administration took last year did a lot of damage. We'll see over the next couple years if the damage is lasting or not.

 
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