United States President Donald Trump has said that the country still needs to attract skilled workers from around the world, even as his administration intensifies investigations into misuse of the H 1B visa programme. He shared these views during an interview with a common news channel.
Responding to a question about whether H-1B visas would be a lower priority if the goal is to raise wages for American workers, Mr. Trump said, “I agree but you also do have to bring in talent.” When the interviewer said that America already has plenty of talent, he replied, “No, you don’t, no you don’t. You don’t have certain talents. And people have to learn.”
He added that some specialised work cannot be done by simply taking people from an unemployment line and placing them in complex manufacturing roles. “You can’t take people off an unemployment line, and say, ‘I am going to put you into a factory, we are going to make missiles’,” he said.
Mr. Trump gave an example of Georgia, saying officials targeted workers because they were immigrants even though they had years of experience in battery making. He said that battery production is complicated and dangerous and that companies needed skilled workers to train others. He added that investments worth billions of dollars cannot rely on people who have not worked for many years to perform highly technical tasks.
The Trump administration has been running a major crackdown on H 1B visa abuse. The programme is widely used by technology companies to bring foreign professionals into the United States. Indian workers, including tech experts and doctors, form one of the largest groups of H 1B holders.
In September, Mr. Trump issued a Proclamation called Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers as part of efforts to reform the visa programme. The order requires certain H-1B petitions filed after September twenty first two thousand twenty five to include an extra one hundred thousand dollar payment to qualify.
Last week, the administration launched around one hundred seventy five investigations into suspected H 1B violations. These include cases involving low wages, false work site details and the practice of benching employees. The United States Department of Labour said in a post on X, “As part of our mission to protect American Jobs, we have launched 175 investigations into H 1B abuse.”
Labour Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer said the department is using all available resources to stop visa abuse and ensure that high skilled jobs are given to American workers first.
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