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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      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?