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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      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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      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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      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?