Just curious how y'all think about it... Note that I'm an international student myself on a student visa so I might be biased, but I think at least for people that have a degree in fields that the US competes with other countries (like AI, aerospace, material etc) many international students should be given the choice to stay or at least make it a lot easier, as long as they agree withh American values and are willing to assimilate. When they find it almost impossible to stay here (which is pretty much the case now) they'll go back to where they came from and help their country compete with the United States in these subjects. We already saw this becoming an issue when Deepseek came out.

These students came legally, rarely commit any crime, pay lots of taxes, bring crucial innovation, create jobs and GDP, etc. Trump himself talked about this and said they should be given green cards. He obviously wasn't serious about it, but at least this shows he's got it right. I hope Elon will work on this as he is one of these immigrants. Ofc this will bring problems and people might come to the US for college just for staying here. But in the long run the current immigration system made American colleges and universities educate America's rivals when they could have joined America's side.

I don't plan to stay myself as I'll need to take care of my granny back home. But many of those around me really do. What do you think? Also, if there's any other immigrant here, feel free to share your own stories!