Trump says allowing skilled immigrants to train US workers 'is MAGA'

President Donald Trump is again expressing enactment for skilled immigrants grooming U.S. workers successful high-tech factories

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has made hardline migration policies a signature issue, but acknowledged connected Wednesday that he's been criticized for precocious saying immoderate skilled immigrants should beryllium allowed into the state from his “Make America Great Again” supporters.

Trump told an assemblage of concern executives that the U.S. needs immigrants who tin bid home workers successful high-tech factories — and insisted that doing truthful is not inconsistent with his halfway governmental beliefs.

“I emotion my blimpish friends. I emotion MAGA. But this is MAGA,” Trump said during an code to the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum, which helium attended with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “Those radical are going to thatch our radical however to marque machine chips, and successful a abbreviated play of time, our radical are going to beryllium doing great. And those radical tin spell home.”

The comments drew applause successful the room. But past week, Trump sparred with Fox News big Laura Ingraham implicit the aforesaid issue. Ingraham suggested during an interrogation with Trump that “you can’t flood the state with tens of thousands, oregon hundreds of thousands, of overseas workers,” lone to person the president respond, “You besides bash person to bring successful talent.”

When Ingraham said that the U.S. had “plenty of talented radical here,” Trump said, “No, you don't,” and added that “people person to learn.”

The speech drew swift and crisp online disapproval from immoderate corners of the MAGA movement, who person opposed expanding H-1B visas, and different programs designed to fto skilled immigrants into the country.

That didn't halt Trump from doubling down connected Wednesday, adding that his detractors are “really, truly smart” contempt their absorption to skilled immigration. “They’re unbelievable patriots,” Trump said. “But they conscionable don’t recognize our radical request to beryllium taught.”

Trump said that erstwhile it comes to “extremely complex” home plants making things similar computers, compartment phones and missiles, it wasn't imaginable to “think you tin prosecute radical disconnected an unemployment enactment to tally it.”

Foreign owners gathering the plants successful the U.S. are “going to person to bring thousands of radical with them, and I’m going to invited those people,” Trump said.

As evidence, the president pointed to the lawsuit of hundreds of South Korean nationals who were detained and near the U.S. pursuing a September migration raid astatine Hyundai’s electrical conveyance manufacturing tract successful Georgia. Some person present returned and are backmost astatine their jobs.

Trump said the workers had been ordered to “get out,” but that “I said, ‘Stop it. Don’t beryllium stupid.’”

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