Supporters of President Donald Trump are outraged by his announcement that 600,000 Chinese students will be allowed into the United States to study.
Trump made the comments at the White House on Monday as trade talks with China continue, saying it was “very important” to allow Chinese students into the country.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, was among the critics of the plan, saying the U.S. “should not let in” students who may be loyal to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Trump’s announcement marks a reversal from his administration’s previous hard-line approach and the “America First” policies that his base of supporters embrace. Earlier this year, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the U.S. would “aggressively” revoke visas for Chinese students and tighten future visa screening. But Trump said in June that he had “always been in favor” of allowing Chinese students into the country.
Trump’s 600,000 figure would be the most Chinese students ever admitted to the U.S. The number of Chinese students peaked at 372,000 in the 2019-20 academic year, when Trump was first president, according to the Institute of International Education. That number dropped after the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 2022-23 academic year, there were about 290,000 Chinese students studying in the U.S., which fell to about 277,000 in the 2023-24 academic year.
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Members of the president’s Make America Great Again movement, including Trump loyalist Laura Loomer, have criticized the plan, saying it would counteract the administration’s mass deportation efforts.
Others hit back at Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who said on Fox News‘ The Ingraham Angle that Trump’s view was that if Chinese students were not allowed to attend U.S. universities, “you’d empty them from the top. All the students would go up to better schools, and the bottom 15 percent of universities and colleges would go out of business in America.”
Chase Geiser, a MAGA influencer, wrote on X, “Did Lutnick really just argue that Trump is letting 600,000 Chinese students into America so Americans will go to worse schools and keep them from closing?”
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