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You cannot put America first by putting Americans last.
This week, both President Donald Trump and Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem signaled the U.S. needs to keep importing foreigners to take American jobs
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham asked Trump during an exclusive interview whether the “H-1B visa thing” would “be a big priority for your administration? Because if you wanna raise wages for American workers, you can’t flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers.”
NOW - Trump says that H1B immigrants are necessary since there are not plenty of talented Americans.
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Laura: "We have plenty of talented people here!"
Trump: "No, you don't. No, you don't... No, you don't have... You don't have certain talents and you have to... People have to… pic.twitter.com/xEfZRIbKPd
“Well, I agree,” the president said, before the rest of the segment derailed. “But you also do have to bring in talent.”
“We have plenty of talented people here,” Ingraham pointed out.
No you don’t, no you don’t,” Trump said
“We don’t have talented people here?” Ingraham asked.
“You don’t have certain talents, and … people have to learn. You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say, ‘I’m gonna put you into a factory where we’re gonna make missiles,'” Trump responded, to which Ingraham raised the question: “How did we ever do it before? When you and I were growing up?”
Trump went on to discuss a recent immigration enforcement operation at a Hyundai plant in Georgia, which led to the arrest of hundreds of Korean workers. Trump implied that without those foreign workers “mak[ing] batteries and … teach[ing] people how to do it,” the U.S. couldn’t produce batteries because Americans apparently lack the necessary skills.
Trump’s defense of foreign labor isn’t just questionable, it’s the opposite of his America First promise. America First is about our sovereignty and mending the link between our prosperity and our people. The idea that we can’t build things anymore without importing foreign labor is the same defeatist logic that globalists used to justify hollowing out other American industries.
Noem seemed to echo a similar sentiment not long after on Fox & Friends. She noted that the administration would “keep using our visa programs” and make sure they have “integrity.”
“[U]nder the Trump admin, we’ve sped up our process and added integrity to the visa programs, to green cards, to all of that, but also more people are becoming naturalized under this administration than ever before. More people are becoming citizens because we’re … making sure that these individuals … are here for the right reasons.” Noem said.--->READ MORE HERE
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H-1B visas allow employers to hire foreign workers for specialty occupations.
President Donald Trump is facing backlash from some of the most influential pro-Trump voices over recent comments backing H-1B visas and saying the United States doesn’t have people with “certain talents” to fill jobs, the latest criticism he's faced from the far-right parts of his MAGA base.
The president made the comments in an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that aired Tuesday night, when she pressed the president on how he plans to handle H-1B visas, which allow companies to hire foreign skilled workers in specialty occupations, with Ingraham suggesting that the program would hurt efforts to raise wages for Americans.
Trump pushed back on Ingraham’s framing, saying, “Well, I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent when a country --"
When Ingraham interjected, “Well, we have plenty of talented people here," the president replied, “No, you don’t. No, you don’t have certain talents and people have to learn.”
Trump’s comments have sparked widespread outrage from prominent voices on the right, ranging from popular MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to Trump supporter and former 1990s “Hercules” actor Kevin Sorbo.
“What an atrocious thing to say. This will cost republicans the midterms,” Sorbo wrote in a post on X.
Prominent pro-Trump podcaster Benny Johnson responded to Trump’s comments by sharing a post Charlie Kirk made on X a few weeks before his assassination, where Kirk called for stopping “the H-1B scam.” Johnson added that he would continue to fight against the issue.
Meanwhile, Kylie Kremer, a diehard Trump supporter who helped organize the rally before the Jan. 6 riot, posted in response, “Where is my President?” and Steven Crowder, another popular right-wing podcaster, called Trump’s comments “as bad as it gets.”
“Was hoping he learned from Elon’s blunder on this one, but it’s not looking like it,” he added.
To try to stop the fracturing of the pro-Trump coalition, Steve Bannon, Trump’s longtime adviser and former White House chief strategist, took to his popular "War Room" show on Wednesday morning to quell the backlash. --->READ MORE HEREFOLLOW LINK BELOW TO A RELEVANT STORY:
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