‘Gold Cards’ Can Help Firms Hire Ivy League Grads, Trump Says

President Donald Trump said American businesses could purchase his proposed “gold cards” to help keep students of Ivy League and other top universities in the country after they graduate, defending an initiative aimed at drawing wealthy individuals as immigrants to the US.

“I get calls from, as an example, companies where they want to hire the No. 1 student at the school, person comes from India, China, Japan, lots of different places, and they go to Harvard to Wharton School of Finance, they go to Yale,” Trump said Wednesday as he convened his first full Cabinet meeting of his second ...