BySiladitya Ray,
Forbes Staff.
President Donald Trump said the H-1B visas were necessary to bring in talented workers to the country, adding that the U.S. lacked certain talents, in a confrontational exchange during an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, which comes two months after he signed an executive order that hiked the fees on the skilled worker visas to $100,000.
In a clip of the interview that aired on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” Trump claimed the U.S. was leading China on AI “by a lot,” said the U.S. has “the greatest economy,” and added “there is never going to be a country like what we have right now.”
Ingraham then asked if this meant “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.”
