This would be a massive reversal from Trump’s policies so far, which have threatened international students’ ability to enter the country and jeopardized the admissions of many top institutions — and it also contradicts his prior moves to revoke visas for Chinese students. But the new pledge, which was backed up by Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, provoked instant fury from the MAGA world.

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    Why would you bother coming over, hes just going to change his mind tomorrow.

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      and they won’t let you just return home, ur goin 2 el salavadorado for a treasure hunt

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    “If we are only mass deporting 1,000 illegals each day but allowing 600,000 Chinese spies to come to our country, how can we call them mass deportations?” wrote far-right influencer Laura Loomer, a frequent influence on the Trump administration’s hiring decisions. “Do the math. We will never get rid of the millions who came in under Biden. It’s basic math.”

    You know it’s bad when Laura Loomer is making a valid point.

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        Even the math isn’t valid unless you can show that all 600,000 of those students will remain in the US illegally when their visas expire. Not a single one of them going back to China, taking their degree to another english speaking country, or obtaining a work visa in the US - that’s not realistic.

        The real number was estimated at 3.67% in 2023, so 22,020 new undocumented immigrants per year from this versus 365,000 planned deportations. Not even the math checks out.

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          “If we are only mass deporting 1,000 illegals each day…

          He’s not just deporting illegals, he’s deporting US citizens and people with valid visas that happen to be brown. There is no due process.

          but allowing 600,000 Chinese spies to come to our country,

          every Chinese student that comes here is a spy?

          We will never get rid of the millions who came in under Biden

          Millions of what?

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              “All Chinese are spies” “all brown people are illegals.”

              These are very racist comments. Did you not register these statements as racist since this kind of language is purposely being bled into every day normal talk with (typically) right wing political figures?

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              All sunzu2’s are worthless racists. They are all lazy and don’t work but they all steal our jobs and take our tax money and eat the cats and the dogs. Get it yet?

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        That’s lunacy. I wonder if his answer would change if it was Biden or Obama…

        That said, I do agree w/ forgiving someone who does something terrible to your family. But forgiveness doesn’t mean you try to remove all consequences, it just means you move on from hating the person to focusing on recovery. That individual should absolutely face consequences for their actions, and it should certainly call into question whatever you thought you knew about them.

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      That might be why there is so much trolling in this community today, there are a lot of wedges.

      • New epstein victims drop next week
      • Guiffrie’s tell all book comes out soon
      • They’re not hurting the “right people,” meaning foreigners are taking their college spots.
      • A shit ton of his base is losing money because he’s rounding up their slave wage staff
      • They’re losing their social security and medicaid
      • Student loans are kicking in again.
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      Very optimistic. I hope you are right. They are the most gullible people among us so I’m sure their brain rot will just be manipulated into accepting it.

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      They’re already out, Trump’s already been incriminated. What are more files going to do?

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      And the students have to go back when they finish. They come here, for a little while, learn how to be inventors, programmers, and scientists, then go back to one of the fastest growing economies on the planet. Meanwhile, we are firing all of the domestic scientists and telling our domestic students that we need them to harvest crops.

      What could go wrong?

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        then go back to one of the fastest growing economies on the planet.

        India?

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        Many stay, there is 1 year visa for them to get job which can be concerted into h1b which happens a lot.

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      Who’s going to pay that kind of money to have a 50% chance of being deported before you’re finished with the degree?

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    Between squeezing rare earth metals trade and dumping US bonds, China’s got him by the balls. And he knows it.

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      No, no, no, this is the art of the deal. You make the worst deals possible, but only talk about a small percentage of it and get the media to back you up. Then, only a small percentage of the US even know how shitty his deals are.

      Well shit, he’s only screwing us over, so it is kind of a good deal for him. He’s only got about 10 years lift at most anyway, what does he care?

      This *evolved into a self-owned, depressing comment.

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    I’m GLAD we’re Deporting my Brown Neighbor so we can IMPORT CHYNESE PEOPLE!

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      To be fair, I could totally see them accepting their tuition money then deporting them once they arrive.

      That would be a very Trump thing to do.

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        Except you don’t pay all at once. When would they deport them? One semester, two, or one semester before graduation? Also good luck collecting on any loans they took out if you deport them before they get their degree.

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          I don’t think they’ll think about it.

          One hand will collect the semester’s tuition, the other will have ICE randomly deport them.