Trump wants skilled overseas workers to 'train Americans' then 'go back home'

A day after US President Donald Trump defended the H1B visa programme Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the vision is to bring in skilled overseas workers who train Americans and then go back homeThe Presidents vision here is to bring in overseas workers where these jobs went who have the skills Three five seven years to train the US workers then they can go home The US workers fully take over Bessent said in an interview to Fox News on WednesdayBessent was asked about Trumps latest remarks on the H1B visa programme where the President said America has to bring in talent since it does not have certain talentsBessent said that for 2030 years the US has offshored precision manufacturing jobs And the Presidents point here is again we cant snap our fingers and say Youre going to learn how to build ships overnight We want to bring the semiconductor industry back to the USSo this idea of overseas partners coming in teaching American workers then returning home thats a home run Bessent said adding that Americans cant have those jobs now because we havent built ships in the US for years we havent built semiconductorsTrump defended the H1B visa programme saying America has to bring in talent from around the worldI agree but you also do have to bring in talent Trump had said in an interview to Laura Ingraham on Fox NewsTrump was responding to a question on whether the H1B visa issue will not be a big priority for his administration and if one wants to raise wages for American workers the country cannot be flooded with hundreds of thousands of foreign workersWhen Ingraham noted that we have plenty of talent Trump said No you dont no you dont You dont have certain talents And people have to learn You cant take people off an unemployment line and say Im going to put you into a factory were going to make missiles Trump had saidIn Georgia they raided because they wanted illegal immigrants They had people from South Korea that made batteries all their lives You know making batteries is very complicated Its not an easy thing and very dangerous A lot of explosions lot of problems They had like 500600 people early stages to make batteries and to teach people how to do it Well they wanted them to get out of the country Youre going to need thatI mean I know you and I disagree on thisYou cant just say a country is coming in going to invest USD 10 billion to build a plant and going to take people off an unemployment line who havent worked in five years and theyre going to start making missiles It doesnt work that wayThe Trump administration has launched a massive crackdown to check abuse in the H1B visa programme which is used by companies particularly technology companies to employ foreign workers in the US Indian professionals including technology workers and physicians are among the largest cohort of H1B visa holdersIn September this year Trump issued a Proclamation titled Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers as an important initial step to reform the H1B nonimmigrant visa programmeUnder the Proclamation certain H1B petitions filed after September 21 2025 must be accompanied by an additional USD 100000 payment as a condition of eligibilityLast week the Trump administration launched about 175 investigations into H1B visa abuse including lapses such as low wages work sites that didnt exist and the practice of benching employeesAs part of our mission to protect American Jobs weve launched 175 investigations into H1B abuse the US Department of Labour had said in a post on XIt added that under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Labour Secretary Lori ChavezDeRemer the agency will continue taking action to put American workers firstChavezDeRemer said in a post on X that the Labour Department is using every resource at our disposal to put a stop to H1B abuse and protect American Jobs Under the leadership of POTUS well continue to invest in our workforce and ensure highskilled job opportunities go to American Workers FIRSTThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever