President Donald Trump announced that America will take in 600,000 Chinese foreign students, prompting sharp backlash from MAGA supporters. The White House characterized the move as a continuation of existing policy. Fox News host Laura Ingraham pressed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on how admitting so many students from China aligns with America First. Lutnick defended the proposal as necessary to prevent lower-ranked U.S. colleges from going out of business and to preserve the university system. Critics argued the policy undermines messages urging Americans to skip college or pursue trades while allowing foreigners to occupy elite university spots.
The cabinet secretary offered a curious defense of the proposal: It's necessary to save American universities. "Well, the president's point of view is that what would happen if you didn't have those 600,000 students is that 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," Lutnick replied. "So, his view is he's taking a rational economic view, which is classic Donald Trump."
The Trump administration has been eager to tell American kids to not go to college and instead work in factories or go to trade school. That may be good advice for some Americans-but it looks terrible when you advocate for foreigners to take up the prime spots at elite universities. The implication is that Americans, but not foreign guests, are only supposed to go to the non-elite schools or forego college altogether.
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