Highly skilled foreign workers will be allowed to come to the US – Donald Trump

President-elect Donald Trump has backed a visa program for highly skilled foreign workers. In his first comments on the issue of migrant workers after winning the election, Trump has indicated that America’s doors will remain open to highly skilled foreigners. His comments have also divided his supporters into two groups. Trump said in an interview with The New York Post that he believes in the H-1B visa. He also cited the thousands of foreign workers invited to the US in the past to fill special positions. During his first term, Trump had criticized the visa program and banned the program to invite foreign workers to the US, but during his election campaign in 2024, he had indicated that foreign workers who have graduated from American universities could be given legal status.

Trump said during the interview that “he has always been a supporter of the visa program. My preference has been the H-1B visa, I believe in the H-1B visa. I have used it many times. It is a very high-quality program.” It is worth mentioning here that industrialists Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, whom Trump has entrusted with the leadership of the newly created department “Department of Efficiency”, have supported the visa program for foreign workers. Now Trump’s positive comments on this program have sparked a new discussion on this issue. Musk had said, “I am in America because of the H-1B visa, like many other people who have created SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies due to which America has become strong. “I’m going to be very vocal on this issue because you can’t possibly end this program.” Musk, who was born in South Africa, came to the US as a foreign student after his mother became a Canadian citizen and later worked on an H-1B visa. On the other hand, anti-immigration Trump supporters are not ready to compromise on the issue. Former Trump aide Steve Bannon has joined Trump loyalists who are opposing bringing foreign workers to the US. They include former Congressman Matt Gates and right-winger Laura Loomer. Steve Bannon has called the H-1B visa program a “scam.”