Trump defends H-1B visas: "You don't have certain talents" in the U.S.

""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," she said. "I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent," Trump said. "We have plenty of talented people" in the U.S. "No, you don't, no you don't ... you don't have certain talents, and people have to learn," Trump said."

""They had like 500 or 600 people, early stages to make batteries and to teach people how to do it. Well, they wanted them to get out of the country. You're going to need that," he added. "You can't just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10 billion to build a plant and take people off an unemployment line who haven't worked in five years and they're going to start making their missiles. It doesn't work that way.""

Trump signed an executive order in September requiring H‑1B applicants to pay a $100,000 fee. He asserted U.S. leadership on AI and a strong economy. In a TV interview, he supported limiting foreign-worker inflows to raise American wages while also stressing the necessity of importing specialized talent. He cited an ICE raid at a Hyundai Georgia campus that removed hundreds of South Korean battery workers and described battery manufacturing as complicated and dangerous. He argued that companies need experienced, skilled workers to build and teach at new plants and that long-unemployed workers cannot quickly fill those roles.

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