Trump's new backtrack enrages MAGA: 'I don't know a single Trump voter in favor of this'
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President Donald Trump infuriated some of his own most influential supporters this week with a new, eye-popping plan to admit students from China, Newsweek reported on Tuesday."I hear so many stories about we're not going to allow their students," Trump told reporters the day before. "We're going to...

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.

  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    444·
    7 days ago

    “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.

      • Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        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.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
          331·
          7 days ago

          “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?

            • Herbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              24·
              7 days ago

              “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?

            • Tiger666@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              5 days ago

              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?