Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans criticized President Donald Trump's support for H-1B visas that high foreign workers and Chinese student programs.
President Trump in a new interview defended bringing in foreign workers on visas, arguing the U.S. did not have enough people with “certain talents” to do particular jobs. Fox News host Laura Ingraham pressed Trump on the issue of H-1B visas, which has been a point of division among conservatives.
During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Tuesday's broadcast of "The Ingraham Angle," President Donald Trump discussed H-1B | Clips
The president argued U.S. companies need specialized labor from foreign workers and can’t “take people off an unemployment line who haven't worked in five years.”
In an interview with Fox News, Trump said that in some cases, "you can’t take people off an unemployment, like an unemployment line, and say, 'I’m going to put you into a factory.'"
