Trump Tells Laura Ingraham the U.S. Lacks ‘Talented People’ in Discussion on Work Visas

President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham the United States needs to bring in foreign workers because it lacks “talented people” in certain areas.

Trump joined Ingraham on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday to give a tour of his reconstruction of the White House’s East Wing. During the interview, Ingraham pressed the president on H-1B foreign visas, arguing the president could not fulfill his promise of revitalizing the manufacturing economy in the United States by bringing in foreign workers.

“I mean, the H-1B 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 tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers,” Ingraham told the president.

“Well, I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent when a country,” Trump pushed back.

“Well, we have plenty of talented people here,” Ingraham countered.

“No, you don’t,” Trump declared.

“We don’t have talented people here?” Ingraham asked.

“No, you don’t have certain talents and people have to learn,” Trump said. “You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say, I’m going to put you into a factory where we’re going to make missiles.”

“How did we ever do it before?” Ingraham pressed further.

Trump argued while acknowledging he and Ingraham were not going to agree on the matter:

Let me give you an example in Georgia. They raided because they wanted illegal immigrants out. They had people from South Korea that made batteries all their lives. You know, making batteries are very complicated. It’s not an easy thing and very dangerous. A lot of explosions, a lot of problems. They had like five or six hundred people, early stages, to make batteries and to teach people how to I do it. Well, they wanted them to get out of the kind you’re going to need that, Laura.

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