If we look back to his first term, President Trump is being consistent on immigration. Obviously his top priority has always been stopping illegal immigration. When it comes to legal immigration his position has always been we need to admit the right people for the right reasons.
My recollection is he preached about the need for extreme vetting before a person would be permitted to migrate to the United States. He imposed the travel bans on countries that support terrorism. He also spoke about the need to end chain migration. And, he attempted to set a high minimum salary for H1B visas to protect American workers, but that was blocked by the courts.
He's actually telling a straight up lie and being inconsistent with his first term specifically regarding H-1B visas. That's the major problem I have with this.
Everything I’ve read and remember about President Trump’s position on H1B visas is about making sure the program isn’t used to undercut American citizens. He has never talked about eliminating it.
So far I haven’t seen any credible sauce that he’s changed his position. All I hear are people complaining because they can’t influence him to change his position. And, because it’s effective, they are piggybacking on the MSM narrative that Musk has too much influence over POTUS to trigger people.
Agree with you completely. I doubt Trump would have been able to end the H1B program at all, given how much congress opposed him. He did try his best with executive orders to my knowledge, to increase visa denial rates, lessen the time they can spend in the US, and require degrees. Not perfect, but Trump was trying his best given what he had.
Your second link actually shows he stated back in March 2016, that he didn’t want to end the H1B program, he wanted to end the abuse of it.
I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions."
Evidently in that debate he admitted he changed his position from the earlier clip in your first link.
If we look back to his first term, President Trump is being consistent on immigration. Obviously his top priority has always been stopping illegal immigration. When it comes to legal immigration his position has always been we need to admit the right people for the right reasons.
My recollection is he preached about the need for extreme vetting before a person would be permitted to migrate to the United States. He imposed the travel bans on countries that support terrorism. He also spoke about the need to end chain migration. And, he attempted to set a high minimum salary for H1B visas to protect American workers, but that was blocked by the courts.
Edit for Sauce:
Chain Migration 2018
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/01/04/immigration-expert-trump-wants-to-end-chain-migration-and-visa-lottery-program/
Supports Legal Migration 2019
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/05/trump-state-of-the-union-legal-immigration-1148629
Tighter H1B rules 2020 and 2018
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2020/10/06/white-house-posts-h-1b-visa-reforms-to-help-american-graduates-get-good-jobs/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/09/04/business-elites-complain-trump-making-it-harder-to-import-foreign-workers/
Extreme vetting of migrants 2016
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37086578
He's actually telling a straight up lie and being inconsistent with his first term specifically regarding H-1B visas. That's the major problem I have with this.
Everything I’ve read and remember about President Trump’s position on H1B visas is about making sure the program isn’t used to undercut American citizens. He has never talked about eliminating it.
So far I haven’t seen any credible sauce that he’s changed his position. All I hear are people complaining because they can’t influence him to change his position. And, because it’s effective, they are piggybacking on the MSM narrative that Musk has too much influence over POTUS to trigger people.
Agree with you completely. I doubt Trump would have been able to end the H1B program at all, given how much congress opposed him. He did try his best with executive orders to my knowledge, to increase visa denial rates, lessen the time they can spend in the US, and require degrees. Not perfect, but Trump was trying his best given what he had.
Well you're demonstrably wrong on this, here is the sauce:
In both of these he talks very negatively about the program and how it is bad for the American workers.
Whereas now he says, "I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,”
Which is an outright flip flop and a lie compared to his 2016 comments.
Sauce: https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-news/donald-trump-backs-h-1b-visa-program-supported-by-elon-musk/
Your second link actually shows he stated back in March 2016, that he didn’t want to end the H1B program, he wanted to end the abuse of it.
Evidently in that debate he admitted he changed his position from the earlier clip in your first link.
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-h1b-visas-gop-debate-immigration-2016-3
So, it is correct to say he has held his current position on H1B’s well before he was nominated and then elected in 2016.
Again, thanks for the sauce, it inspired me to dig a little deeper.