President Trump said in a Fox News interview that aired Sunday evening H-1B skilled worker visas are necessary because “you don’t have certain talents” in the U.S.
Why it matters: H-1B visas have divided MAGA world, with business leaders like Elon Musk saying they’re vital to U.S. tech dominance, but Fox News’ Laura Ingraham raised with Trump the concern that the scheme risks displacing American employees with foreign workers.
- Trump signed an executive order in September requiring highly skilled workers hoping to obtain an H-1B visa to work in the U.S. to pay a $100,000 fee.
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- “If you want to raise wages for American workers, you can’t flood the country with with tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of foreign workers,” she said.
Zoom in: “I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent,” Trump said.
- Ingraham countered: “We have plenty of talented people” in the U.S.
- “No, you don’t, no you don’t … you don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn,” Trump said.
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