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Trump promised more legal high-skilled immigration. His record says otherwise.

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Donald J. Trump promised to give every foreign-born U.S. college graduate a green card during a June appearance on the Business and Technology podcast All-In.

Trump increased regulation on the H-1B visa program, which provides 65,000 visas for "highly educated foreign professionals" The Cato Institute director of immigration studies says he is "certain" that the second Trump administration will "restrict" the program.

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