Washington: Amid the ongoing tensions over the H-1B visa, the White House on Monday (local time) stated that the United States President Donald Trump is in favour of limited and short-term hiring of foreign skilled workers when companies make major investments in US manufacturing, but he is also committed to protecting American jobs. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that the major goal is to give job preference to Americans. Leavitt highlighted the administration’s view during a briefing, calling the US President’s position on H-1B visas a matter of common sense.
Notably, the statement came amid growing tensions over H-1B visas and concerns that skilled workers from other countries could displace domestic jobs.
“The President does not support American workers being replaced… The President wants to see the American manufacturing industry revitalised better than ever before. That’s part of what he’s doing with his effective use of tariffs and cutting good trade deals around the world,” Leavitt said.
“As for the H-1B visa issue, the President has a very nuanced and common-sense opinion on this issue. If foreign companies are investing trillions of dollars in the United States of America and bringing in foreign workers to create niche products like batteries, he wants to see that at the beginning, to get those manufacturing facilities and factories up and running. But ultimately, the President always wants to see American workers in those jobs,” she added.
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Leavitt added that Trump told foreign companies investing in the US that they should hire US citizens.
“He’s told these foreign companies that are investing here, you better be hiring my people if you’re going to be doing business in the United States,” Leavitt added.
On November 20, Trump, addressing the gathering at the US Saudi Investment Forum, stated that foreign companies must hire US people.
Trump said that when companies invest huge into building advanced facilities, like billion-dollar chip factories, they can’t simply bring in people from an unemployment line to operate them. He said that highly skilled foreign experts are often needed initially to train American workers before stepping aside.
Despite facing criticism from MAGA supporters, the US President maintained his stance that high-skilled foreign workers are essential.
Addressing frustration from parts of his base, he said, “They just don’t understand,” as he acknowledged tensions over expectations of a stricter “America First” approach.
Reinforcing his argument, Trump said, “You can’t come in, open a massive computer chip factory for billions and billions of dollars like is being done in Arizona, and think you’re gonna hire people off an unemployment line to run it. They’re gonna have to bring thousands of people with them, and I’m gonna welcome those people. This is MAGA.”
He repeated, “They just don’t understand.”
Trump added that specialised knowledge must be shared before American workers can fully assume certain roles. “People have to be taught this is something they’ve never done. But we’re not going to be successful if we don’t allow people who invest billions of dollars in plants and equipment to bring a lot of their people from their country to get that plant open, operating, and working. I’m sorry.”
Donald Trump said that H-1B visa system is crucial for industries that need professional workers with expertise, which cannot be immediately sourced domestically. “No, you don’t. You don’t have certain talents… You can’t take people off the unemployment line and expect them to operate advanced factories or make missiles,” he said.
Trump’s statement came at the time when a group of Republican leaders put pressure on him to dismantle the programme.
(With ANI Inputs)
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