Trump dangles green card for students

Former President Donald Trump has said in an interview that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from US colleges, a sharp departure from the anti-immigrant rhetoric he typically uses on the campaign trail.

A Green Card, known officially as a permanent resident card, is an identity document showing a person has permanent residency in the United States.

Trump was asked about plans for companies to be able to import the "best and brightest" in a podcast taped on Wednesday which venture capitalists and tech investors called the "All-In".

“What I want to do and what I will do is that when you graduate from a college, 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 -- anybody who graduates from a college.

Trump dangles... You go there for two years or four years,” he said, vowing to address this concern on day one.

"We force brilliant people, people that graduate from college, people that are number one in their class from the best colleges, you should be able to recruit these people and keep the people," he asserted.

“Somebody graduates at the top of the class; they can't even make a deal with the company because they don't think they're going to be able to stay in the country.

"That is going to end on day one," Trump announced.