{"id":2488835,"date":"2025-09-19T21:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-sells-visa-fee-hikes-as-job-security-for-foreign-students\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T21:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:05:45","slug":"trump-sells-visa-fee-hikes-as-job-security-for-foreign-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-sells-visa-fee-hikes-as-job-security-for-foreign-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump sells visa fee hikes as job security for foreign students"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-sells-visa-fee-hikes-as-job-security-for-foreign-students%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2488835&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses President Donald Trump&#8217;s recent executive actions regarding visa policies for foreign students and skilled workers.Trump signed a presidential proclamation increasing the fee for H-1B visa applicants to $100,000 and introduced a &#8220;Gold Card&#8221; visa program, which allows foreign nationals of exceptional ability to obtain expedited visa processing by paying $1 million personally or $2 million through a company.<\/p>\n<p>Trump framed these reforms as a way to retain talented foreign students who graduate from top U.S. universities but often have to leave the country due to visa restrictions. He emphasized that corporations willing to invest in these individuals would be able to keep them in the U.S., comparing it to signing bonuses in professional sports. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick supported the changes, highlighting that companies must decide if a candidate is worth the higher visa cost or if they should hire American workers.<\/p>\n<p>The article also notes tensions within the Trump management&#8217;s immigration policies, such as efforts to restrict visas for Chinese students amidst national security concerns, while simultaneously promoting the intake of skilled immigrants. Additionally,international student enrollment is part of broader discussions with elite colleges over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judiciary-committee-splits-on-controversial-justice-department-nominee\/\" title=\"Judiciary Committee Splits on Controversial Justice Department Nominee\">civil rights investigations<\/a> and campus activism.<\/p>\n<p>Trump reiterated a distinction between cracking down on illegal immigration and reforming legal immigration channels to attract skilled workers. The administration defended the visa fee hikes as measures to prevent program abuse, protect wages, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-gives-national-security-grants-to-think-tank-backed-by-ccp-front-group\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Gives ... Grants to Think Tank Backed by CCP Front Group\">enhance national security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The coverage also briefly mentions a related political context: Trump&#8217;s comments on government funding amid a potential shutdown, ongoing talks with Democrats, and his responses to other current issues during a press conference. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump sells visa fee hikes as job security for foreign students<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2235319\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> portrayed his visa reforms as an opportunity for foreign students to remain in the United States if a company is willing to pay.<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Friday took two executive actions, signing one presidential proclamation that increased the fee for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3816221\/trump-to-charge-100k-fee-for-h-1b-visas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H1-B visa applicants<\/a> to $100,000 and an executive order creating the Gold Card visa program, through which foreign nationals of &ldquo;extraordinary ability&rdquo; can pay $1 million or a company $2 million for &ldquo;expedited visa treatment.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3813430\/abigail-spanberger-virginia-early-voting-kickoff-event\/\">Abigail Spanberger smells victory in Virginia in early voting kickoff event<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3816539\/alex-acosta-never-saw-trump-name-epstein-case\/\">Alex Acosta said he never saw Trump&rsquo;s name when handling Epstein case<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3816354\/doj-nicholas-roske-attempted-kavanaugh-assassin-sentence\/\">DOJ seeks 30-year prison sentence for attempted Kavanaugh assassin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;One of the biggest problems we have is that people, they go to the best schools, and they do great, they get great marks, and then they get thrown out of the country, they&rsquo;re not allowed to stay,&rdquo; Trump told reporters in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House<\/a>&lsquo;s Oval Office. &ldquo;This way, a corporation will be able, sort of like a signing bonus in baseball or football, a corporation will be able to get them to stay in the country, and I think it&rsquo;s going to be tremendously successful.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-harvard-law-professor-says-harvard-is-going-to-lose-battle-against-trump-thanks-to-the-constitution\/\" title=\"Former Harvard Law Professor Says &#039;Harvard Is Going to Lose&#039; Battle Against Trump Thanks to the Constitution\">retain foreign students<\/a> come after <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">the Department of Homeland Security and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/state-department\/\" target=\"_blank\">State Department<\/a>&nbsp;have tried to prevent<\/span> Harvard University from enrolling students from overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Commerce Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/howard-lutnick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Howard Lutnick<\/a> joined Trump for the executive action signing and framed the visa changes as recruiting the best and brightest.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The company needs to decide is that person valuable enough to have $100,000-a-year payment to the government or they should go hire an American,&rdquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/howard-lutnick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Lutnick<\/a> said. &ldquo;It can be a total of six years, so $100,000 a year.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s America First rhetoric has been complicated by his posture on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/firm-linked-to-joe-biden-scrubs-website-of-all-china-related-business\/\" title=\"Firm Linked To Joe Biden Scrubs Website Of All China Related Business\">welcoming foreign students<\/a>, who  typically pay the maximum tuition prices and may increasingly represent an important segment on college campuses as the number of U.S. high school graduates is projected to decline.<\/p>\n<p>Trump raised eyebrows last month when he announced he&rsquo;d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3781400\/trump-us-accept-600000-students-china-trade-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accept 600,000 Chinese students<\/a> as part of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trade deal<\/a>&nbsp;his administration is trying to strike with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China<\/a>. That pro-immigrant messaging came after the State Department in May said it would &ldquo;aggressively revoke&rdquo; the visas of Chinese students studying in America based on purported links to the Chinese Communist Party. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, high levels of international student enrollment have become a pressure point in the Trump administration&rsquo;s settlement talks with elite colleges to settle civil rights investigations. Columbia University&rsquo;s deal with the Trump administration this summer calls for the New York college to decrease its international student enrollment. The college was being reprimanded amid allegations of antisemitism on campus and activism led in part by Mahmoud Khalil, a foreign student organizing against Israel&rsquo;s war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has made a distinction between aggressively deporting immigrants who overstayed their visas or entered the U.S. illegally, while reforming legal ways to bring in skilled immigrants by merit. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump is imposing higher costs on companies seeking to use the H-1B program in order to address the abuse of the program, stop the undercutting of wages, and protect our national security, the White House said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/09\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-suspends-the-entry-of-certain-alien-nonimmigrant-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fact sheet<\/a> on its reforms. <\/p>\n<p>Trump opened his hourlong signing ceremony<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">, which turned into a press conference, by congratulating House Republicans for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3815525\/house-passes-short-term-spending-deal-fate-uncertain-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\">passing a continuing resolution<\/a>&nbsp;to keep the federal government open after Sept. 30. However,<\/span> the measure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3815835\/senate-rejects-two-funding-bills-government-shutdown-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">failed to pass<\/a> in the Senate without Democratic support to meet the 60-vote threshold.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll continue to talk to the Democrats, but I think you could very well end up with a closed country for a period of time,&rdquo; Trump said as Congress left town Friday without a solution, increasing the prospect of a shutdown on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican plan passed by the House would <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >continue federal spending levels<\/a> through Nov. 21, in addition to $88 million in emergency funding for security for lawmakers after the assassination last week of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/charlie-kirk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3812643\/hispanic-heritage-month-political-appeals-latino-voters-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH SPARKS APPEALS TO LATINO VOTERS AS TRUMP SLIPS IN POLLS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the press conference, Trump was pressed on topics from his telephone call on Friday with Chinese President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/xi-jinping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Xi Jinping,<\/a> including regarding the particulars of the pair&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TikTok<\/a> deal, to Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ted-cruz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ted Cruz<\/a> (R-TX) criticizing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/federal-communications-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal Communications Commission<\/a> chairman Brendan Carr as &ldquo;mob boss&rdquo; after ABC suspended <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jimmy Kimmel Live! 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