Trump ignites conservative Backlash after Opening Door To 600,000 Chinese Students: 'What is this Madness?'
"We're going to allow their students to come in. It's very important, 600,000 students. It's very important. But we're going to get along with China," he continued.
"I think it's very insulting to say students can't come here because they'll go out and start building schools and they'll be able to survive it. But I like that their students come here. I like that other countries' students come here. And you know what would happen if they didn't? Our college system would go to hell very quickly. And it wouldn't be the top colleges, so it'd be colleges that struggle on the bottom. And you take out 300,000 or 600,000 students out of the system," Trump said.
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"Granting 600,000 student visas to Chinese nationals threatens to put foreign students ahead of U.S. graduates," Joe Chatham, director of government relations at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"Trump's team is not capable of defending his Chinese student visa program," conservative lawyer Marina Medvin posted on X. "That's because they don't actually want it either. It's hard to sell something you don't like."
"So this is essentially a subsidy for academia. Got it. American universities shouldn't need an influx of foreign students in order to stay afloat. If they can't survive on American enrollment, then let them go under. Plus, Chinese students steal our research and send it home," Josh Peterson, a full stack developer and investigative journalist, posted.
Conservative commentator Liz Wheeler unleashed on the Trump White House, saying these Chinese students should be banned.
"Chinese 'students' are all spies for the Chinese Communist Party. They’re forced to be. They steal our intellectual property. They steal our tech. They steal our intel. They cozy up to our military," Wheeler posted on X. "Trump should ban all Chinese students from U.S. universities. Deport them all."
"This is the dumbest explanation I’ve heard. By all means, put colleges & universities out of business!" Wheeler said in response to Lutnick's defense of Trump's policy. "Their business is indoctrinating students into hardened revolutionary Marxists. If you want to save America, you’ll have to raze the university system. Perfect chance to start."
Conservative groups oppose Trump's 600,000 Chinese student visa plan, arguing it prioritizes foreign nationals over U.S. citizens and threatens national security.
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