WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump once again defended the H-1B visas, saying overseas workers are needed to train American workers.
“If you are going to be making chips, we don’t make chips too much here anymore. We are going to be…in a period of a year, we are going to have a big portion of the chip market. But we have to train our people how to make chips. We used to do it, and foolishly we lost that business to Taiwan, ” Trump said while addressing reporters at the White House.
Last week, Trump, in an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, supported the H-1B visa programme.
When asked if his administration planned to deprioritise H-1B visas. He replied, “You do have to bring in talent.”
When Ingraham countered, “We have plenty of talent, ” Trump responded, “No, you don’t.”
“You don't have certain talents….And people have to learn, you can't take people off an unemployment line and say, I'm going to put you into a factory. We're going to make missiles, ” he added.