US President Donald Trump spoke about accepting 500,000 Chinese students in the US at a time when his administration has cracked the whip on even legal immigration, and said it’s a very insulting thing to say to a country that “I don’t want any students”. These are good students and US will give them Green Card, Trump said adding that it’s not only about China but students from other countries too.“As far as the students, it’s 500,000 students. They come, good students. I could tell them, “I don’t want any students.” It’s a very insulting thing to say to a country. They would then immediately go out and start building universities all over China. But if you don’t have those students—good students, by the way—if you don’t… and we do another thing, you know, if they’re good and they want to stay in America, we will give them a green card and things like that. I’m, you know, and that’s not only them but other countries,” Trump said to Sean Hannity in his interview for Fox News.“But if you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it. And you know, the ones that won’t be hurt are the top schools. The top schools will do fine. But your lower schools, your lower… the ones that don’t do quite as well, those students… they’ll be dying all over the place.”“I frankly think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it’s good. Not everybody agrees with me. And it doesn’t sound like a very conservative position. And I’m as conservative… I’m a conservative guy. I’m really a common-sense guy, I think more than a conservative guy. I think MAGA is common sense. You know, people understand we want strong borders, we want strong military, we want good education, we want low interest rates, we want... you know,” Trump continued.
That’s not common sense: MAGA outraged over Trump’s soft stance
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said admitting Chinese students in place of American students is not common sense. “Trump says it’s insulting to tell China their students can’t go to our universities, imagine being an American student and receiving a rejection letter while 500,000 Chinese students get in! And NO it is not ok for China to buy our farmland!!! And no that’s not common sense!!!” Greene said.James Fishback who is running for Florida Governor, said he would raise the tuition fee if Trump brings 500,000 Chinese students. “I respect President Trump, but if he brings 500,000 Chinese students to Florida colleges, I will raise tuition on them to $1,000,000/year. As Governor, I refuse to let the limited admission spots at our taxpayer-funded colleges be stolen by foreigners,” Fishback posted.
