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tal , to news in Trump Says Foreigners Who Graduate From US Colleges Should Get Green Cards
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I don’t have an issue with the broad principle of lowering the bar to people with a student visa, but making it automatic is likely going to raise the bar on student visas.

FlyingSquid , to news in Trump Says Foreigners Who Graduate From US Colleges Should Get Green Cards
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“Mr. Trump, does that include Chinese students?” – Journalists with integrity that don’t exist

capt_wolf , to news in Trump Says Foreigners Who Graduate From US Colleges Should Get Green Cards
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Hey idiot… It’s called a student visa and all of the people I know who were here on one got their green cards shortly after graduating. That’s not some new genius idea… It’s how the system is meant to work…

jj4211 ,

We have a young person here on student visa and he’s struggling to get a more persistent arrangement and thinks he may have to move back next year when his visa is done. He’s hoping for an h1b, but that’s a lottery… If there’s something he’s missing, it’d be good to know.

cornshark ,

Student visas just let students be in the US and have no path to green card.

The paths to green card I’m aware of are being a family member to a citizen, being sponsored by your employer, the diversity visa and the job creation green card.

It sounds to me like he is proposing to skip the whole second paragraph?

dogslayeggs ,

That’s not how it worked for any of the people I knew on student visas. All of them had to hope for a job with a company that would support getting them an H1b/EB2/EB3 visa. Trump has been pushing to raise the limits on H1B visas since before the 2016 election, and it’s one policy idea of his I (think I) agree with. One of the reasons so many foreign students stay on for grad school is because it allows them to stay on a student visa if they can’t get supported by a company.

There are 5 ways to go from a student visa to a green card: marrying a US citizen, employee sponsorship (H1b/EB2/EB3), the green card lottery, political asylum, get sponsored by a relative who owns a US company. There is also a 6th way that doesn’t require a student visa, the EB1, but that requires being a recognized leader in your field.

Revonult ,

My friends getting their PhDs had a really hard time getting theirs and almost had to leave the country.

TheBigBrother , to news in Trump Says Foreigners Who Graduate From US Colleges Should Get Green Cards

I’m not republican but let’s be fair, it seems like a good idea maybe we should research more about it.

azimir ,

Germany’s overhaul of their immigration system added 3/5th credit to citizenship for foreign students doing university in their country. If you do a 3 year bachelor’s, then a 2 year masters it puts you only two years working from permanent residency. It’s a brilliant move to help highly educated people get connected then prove their commitment to the nation on a path to permanent citizenship.

kbin_space_program ,

You need that extra time, or you have the issue Vancouver has where international students with no given Canadian income own something like 30% of the city's luxury housing.

dan1101 ,

They would have to do something different than 3/5 in the USA, that fraction has a bad history here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise

Tylerdurdon , to news in Trump Says Foreigners Who Graduate From US Colleges Should Get Green Cards

The guy is like verbal alphabet soup. Most of the time it’s gibberish, but occasionally it’s a word you like. There are lots of words though.

Riccosuave ,
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Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while…

Samvega ,

If I throw enough butter knives in the air, one of them is bound to fall into an open container of butter placed next to a slice of toast.

jonne ,

This has been my theory of his continued popularity. He takes every side of every issue, that way anyone can be targeted with ads that match their beliefs.

It’s not even a conscious choice by him, it’s just the way real estate salespeople work, they’ll say whatever it takes to close the deal, there’s no need to be consistent from one prospective buyer to the next.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

That’s actually how these MAGA events are!

Trump says something wise like, “Get a vaccine.” And they boo so he stops. Then he rambles for a bit and says something like, “could be poison” and they cheer and he smirks, and continues with that.

return2ozma OP , to news in Trump Says Foreigners Who Graduate From US Colleges Should Get Green Cards
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Oh now he does a 180 on immigration policy? That Fox News poll must have really triggered him

adarza ,

there’s also a fair number of students and graduates from certain countries or related to certain peoples that he might want to help in exchange for who-knows-what.

the one thing that is certain, is he isn’t proposing it for the benefit of ‘immigrants’ or ‘foreign students’ or even for the betterment of america… but rather, for himself. it’s always about him.

dogslayeggs ,

Trump has been pushing for more foreign student green cards since before 2016. He said numerous times that he wanted to raise the number of H1b visas.

tal ,
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During his 2016 campaign, he claimed at different points that he opposed and supports H1-Bs.

dogslayeggs ,

OK, I just didn’t hear the times he said he opposed them. I do remember him saying we should increase them, since at the time I thought that was a good idea (not sure anymore, since they can so easily be used to just bring in lower paid people instead of how they are intended).

Zellith , to news in Cases of Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Have Tripled in China, Posing a Global Threat

Is this a literal case of "Fuck around and find out"?

elbarto777 ,

It took me a minute. Well done!

FlyingSquid ,
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Fuck around without any protection and find out, would be more accurate.

betterdeadthanreddit , to news in Cases of Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Have Tripled in China, Posing a Global Threat

Time to grind up some tiger dicks or something if you accept the advice of TCM quacks.

PhlubbaDubba , to news in Cases of Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Have Tripled in China, Posing a Global Threat

Where the fuck are the bacteriophage treatments Kurzgesagt told me about‽

NegativeInf ,

Science happens slowly until it happens all at once.

And here’s clinical trials

harderian729 , to world in US Flies Forces in to Beef up Security at Embassy in Haiti and Evacuate Nonessential Personnel

This is a start.

The US could turn Haiti into a paradise for a fraction of what it’s spending in Ukraine.

Rapidcreek OP ,

Like the money poured into the country after the earthquake? How soon we forget.

harderian729 ,

I guess your point is there is nothing the US could do to help?

Just say that if that’s what you mean.

But you won’t because you know it’s a stupid position to own.

Rapidcreek OP ,

My point is that the US has already given much to Haiti, yet here we are back again with a humanitarian crisis. Sooner or later it’s time to try something different, I don’t want to see those people eat dirt again, but damn it’s time to try something different.

Rapidcreek OP , to world in US Flies Forces in to Beef up Security at Embassy in Haiti and Evacuate Nonessential Personnel

The Maines pick members with intimidating stature for embassey protection. Best friend or worse enemy? You decide.

HurlingDurling OP , to news in South Carolina Lawmakers Are Close to Loosening Gun Laws After Long Debate
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Update: The bill is now law.

Because in order to stop mass shootings we need more guns right? /s

FenrirIII , to news in South Carolina Lawmakers Are Close to Loosening Gun Laws After Long Debate
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Expect lots of shootings

mctoasterson ,

29 states now have Constitutional Carry. Somehow we get by without problems.

Neato , to news in Federal Appeals Court Denies Trump Presidential Immunity
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It’s a good precedent.

I know if I was a sitting President and the courts told me I could never be held liable for ANY CRIME I committed while in office my hesitation for extreme acts would be at least a little lessened. The courts would essentially be saying the President can do whatever he can manage to accomplish, legal or not. Which is essentially handing dictatorial powers to the President.

Itsamelemmy ,

It would give the president the legal authority to assassinate political rivals including Supreme Court justices. Hopefully even our currently corrupt SC understands that granting absolute power to any one person is a horrible idea.

Neato ,
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Yeah. He doesn’t even need to kill anyone. He could simply have all his political rivals arrested for crimes. He could even just have them be the crimes they have committed that aren’t normally enforced. Like the SCOTUS not declaring their gifts, improper congress procedures (gun procedures), insider trading, etc. Then if they are all in jail awaiting trial, they can’t do their jobs. Repeat until he has a Congress to approve removing them and appointing new justices.

It’s an insane thing to agree with so I’m glad the courts understand that.

Marsupial , to world in Ukraine Says It Uncovers Mass Fraud in Weapons Procurement
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$40m sounds like a lot, but out of billions it’s a tiny percentage.

Glad to see them tackling it regardless.

Gradually_Adjusting ,
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I’m sure the pentagon has more expensive credenzas.

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