Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the administration will admit 600,000 foreign students to help lower-tier colleges avoid bankruptcy, and will also upgrade the immigration process to favor higher-earning migrants.

Laura Ingraham, the host of “ The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News, asked Lutnick on Monday evening: “ Mr. Secretary, with all due respect, how is allowing 600,000 students from the communist country of China putting America first?”

The question was prompted by President Donald Trump’s comments earlier that day that the U.S. would continue to welcome students from China as he also mentioned 600,000 foreign students.

“Well, the President’s point of view is that what would happen if you didn’t have those 600,000 students is that … the bottom 15 percent of universities and

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