Name: Trump: US doesn't have talented people to fill jobs domestically
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Donald Trump was confronted on Fox about H1B visas and why he's not prioritizing jobs for American workers in manufacturing.

And does that mean the H1B visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration?

Because 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.

Also do have to bring in talent when we have plenty of talented people.

No, you don't have, you don't have certain talents.

You can't take people off an unemployment, like an unemployment line and say, I'm going to put you into a factory.

We're going to make missiles, or I'm going to put how did we ever do it before?

I mean, there are a lot of things happening there, including a huge rift, actually

within the Republican coalition on this issue.

But that's that piece where he says, no, no, you don't, you don't have the talent.

I mean, this is yet another circumstance where the president seems to be having a very difficult time defending his own policies here.

And I am someone who's generally in favor of more immigration, who's been very in favor of these H1B visas which have been indispensable to the tech industry.

It would be great if he had the ability to articulate why these are a good idea right now, why these don't necessarily crowd out American applicants for these jobs, People who want to go seek a H education in the United States, visiting from abroad, being able to attract the best possible talent from around the world and bring them to American universities to steep them in our culture.

Lots of them stay, lots of them create more jobs.

It has been a remarkable success story for the United States.

Although there are cheaters in the system.

But to Camille's point, Trump did not articulate anything even close to that in that sound bite.

And it's fascinating because although I completely agree with what you said, I thought it was kind of shocking that he just said, no, you don't.

He's referring to the United States as some other entity, as though he's not the president of the United States.

The United States doesn't have talented workers.

First of all, I Agree there are not enough workers here in the United States to be able to do all those jobs.

But the president of the United States just said that we, that you, you, the United States people don't have enough good, talented people in your country.

I'm shocked that if Barack Obama or Joe Biden or any Democrat said that every Republican conservative would be outraged by that.

It just struck me as being very unusual for any president to say something like that.

If Joe Biden had said that, it would be, you know, more evidence in your column that he was unfit.

I think he was having a debate with a hardliner about immigration.

She fervently believes that we shouldn't have any of this kind of immigration.

Trump is in an interesting spot, as you pointed out, with the coalition.

He does have people in the party who believe what Laura believes, which is this should be cut off.

We shouldn't be doing any immigration of any kind.

That that's how you drive up wages for workers.

He also has this interesting tech part of his coalition.

And then he's also got the agriculture piece of his coalition, which has other immigration issues.

He's got a broad coalition with really, really disparate views.

I will point out he did sign an executive order earlier this year.

I think it's $100,000 application fee now for an H1B visa.

So they did move towards making it harder to get one.

I think they would argue that makes it harder to cheat on it.

If you're serious, you're going to pay us this kind of an application fee.

But obviously he believes there's something to be gained in the United States by finding talented people, maybe with specialized skills and bringing them here.

He may not be in full agreement with all of his coalition, but

he'll get some support on that out of tech and out of other industries.

If Trump would have said, no, we definitely need American workers, would you have the same.

Would you have just made the same argument?

Well, I'm not necessarily making an argument.

I'm just telling you the political dynamics in the Republican Party, which is that there's not broad agreement.

Some people want it, some people want it throttled, and some people don't want it at all.

And he's kind of presiding over all of this.

He is in an interesting position because he's known broadly as an immigration hawk.

But on this particular point, he is supported by a great many people who see the value in highly specialized, talented people being able to come here who are from other countries, not Americans.

Yeah, so I mean, that, that is, that is a point that's been made to him.

And he's obviously one of the reasons that this is a nonsense, because Trump has sold his base on a pretty exclusionary immigration policy.

Now he's trying to argue with them that actually we should let certain people in.

That's why Laura Ingraham is pressing him like this.

And he's not really even articulating to Camille's point.

Again, he's not really saying clearly what the policy ought to be.

He's just saying we don't have talented people in the United States to do these jobs, which is not true.

But, you know, I mean, it's also just a failure.

Are you arguing that we shouldn't have H1BS?

No, I'm just saying what he's saying, that we don't have talented people is just, on its face, untrue.

But there is a, there's a role for H1BS that he could argue for, but he didn't.

I interpreted it as him saying, I'm not trying to put it just didn't make the argument.

When I was listening to it and I listened to it carefully, I was interpreting his answer as, look, we have needs in room for the most talented people we can get.

Now it will be under the framework of his executive order, meaning you have to pay a pretty significant fee to get one.

Which I think they believe has controlled this to some degree.

But my interpretation of it was, hey, if there are talented people that can come here, they want to be here and they're not gaming the system.

He said you'd have to get people out of the unemployment line here in order to get them into the jobs that are high skilled jobs.

That didn't sound like what you just said.

No, he was obviously saying that if you have an unskilled job, what you're saying and what you're actually saying, no, if there's an unskilled worker who's unemployed versus a highly trained or highly educated, you know, engineer, physicist, those are two different kinds of people who would be taking two different kinds of jobs.

You couldn't pluck anyone off the street and put them in a high tech, highly specialized, high trained area in that moment, maybe you could train them over time.

But if you have someone that's already trained, that wants to pay 100 grand to come here and you could do it while you're doing it.

And for the skill type workers, he does, he does advocate for apprenticeship programs, right?

That's, that's the cornerstone of trying to train the American worker to do the jobs in the American factories as, as, as the manufacturing base starts to grow.

This sucks for you guys because he has put, Trump, has put you in a very difficult position because as my colleagues have said here, right, If Joe Biden or any other Democrat would have said this, he'd be like, that's ridiculous.

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