Give (Conditional) Green Cards with Graduate Degrees

In June 2024, presidential candidate Donald J. Trump said: “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. That includes junior colleges, too.”

Trump’s comments, which were an entry in the ongoing and recently intensified debate on the right about immigration, tapped into a truth. Our immigration system has welcomed gang members and awarded them housing and health care. And yet it forces some of the brightest minds that our schools and scholarships have nurtured to jump through numerous hoops before they can stay and work in the country — and sometimes, it just deports them.

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In June 2024, presidential candidate Donald J. Trump said: “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. That includes junior colleges, too.”

Trump’s comments, which were an entry in the ongoing and recently intensified debate on the right about immigration, tapped into a truth. Our immigration system has welcomed gang members and awarded them housing and health care. And yet it forces some of the brightest minds that our schools and scholarships have nurtured to jump through numerous hoops before they can stay and work in the country — and sometimes, it just deports them.