Bannon Trashes Trump’s ‘Automatic’ Green Card For College Grads Plan: Clip Their ‘Exit Visa’ to Diplomas

Former President Donald Trump’s Thursday embrace of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 plan to grant green cards to college graduates has not found a lot of support on the hard right or in the MAGA base.

MAGA podcaster and former Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon argued strongly against the idea on Friday, saying, “The exit visa should be clipped to the diploma. The exit visa.”

“We can’t keep the world on our shoulders and keep spending money on all these forever wars in this international apparatus, in this empire, we want the nations of the earth to also make themselves great again,” Bannon continued, adding:

People by and large want to live back where they come from or where their folks are and what their culture and society is. Yes, let’s take them in a selective basis, train them up, let them root for college football and get all that. You know, you look in the college football stands — the diversity. It’s fabulous. But then it’s time to go back home.

And make your country great again. Work for your country and make a great again. That is the way we go as nations of the earth, as nations of the Earth, and we move together. We can’t suck it all in like Britain did. You can’t do that. Then it’s going to be these are going to be shells of each other.

Trump told the “All-In” podcast on Thursday, “What I want to do and what I will do is, you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma a Green Card to be able to stay in this country, and that includes junior colleges too.” Other MAGA influencers, like conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, have spoken out against the plan.

BANNON: Cut Foreigners in American Colleges by 50%; Staple Exit Visa to Diploma pic.twitter.com/HttY6Xvpgu

— Grace Chong 🇺🇸 (@gc22gc) June 21, 2024

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