Late to thread- but I believe the issue was MeGYN conflated the issue of H1B and high skilled workers. Probably a deliberate obfuscation.
I went back and checked the remarks for both debates. The HB1-Visa issue was conflated.
Trump has not stated that he wanted more HB-1 visas, Trump has stood for applying the HB-1 Visa law. The problem with the HB-1 Visa program currently, is that it is being used ILLEGALLY. People need to read the law to understand that what Disney did to its workers was ILLEGAL.
Trump, God love him, is a terrible debater who does not have any debate tactics. He fears to make the questioner clarify, a bad mistake. Ted Cruz would have used his debating skills to ask Megan Kelly to repeat what he had said in the earlier debate, rather than accepting Megan’s premise, “You spoke enthusiastically in favor of these visas”.
Compare the transcripts below. Trump is not a great debater. If he does not remember what he said, he should make the questioner detail his remarks. I do not believe Trump to be dishonest.
Here is the transcript from Michigan Debate last Thursday:
Mr. Trump, your campaign website to this day argues that more visas for highly skilled workers would, quote, “decimate American workers”. However, at the CNBC debate, you spoke enthusiastically in favor of these visas. So, which is it?
TRUMP: I’m changing. I’m changing. We need highly skilled people in this country, and if we can’t do it, we’ll get them in. But, and we do need in Silicon Valley, we absolutely have to have.
So, we do need highly skilled, and one of the biggest problems we have is people go to the best colleges. They’ll go to Harvard, they’ll go to Stanford, they’ll go to Wharton, as soon as they’re finished they’ll get shoved out. They want to stay in this country. They want to stay here desperately, they’re not able to stay here. For that purpose, we absolutely have to be able to keep the brain power in this country.
Here is the contezt of the original quote at the CNBC debate in Boulder:
Mr. Trump, I want to go back to an issue that we were talking about before, the H-1B visas. I found where I read that before. It was from the donaldjtrump.com website and it says — it says that again, Mark Zuckerburg’s personal senator, Marco Rubio has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Are you in favor of H-1Bs or are you opposed to them?
TRUMP: I’m in favor of people coming into this country legally. And you know what? They can have it anyway you want. You can call it visas, you can call it work permits, you can call it anything you want. I’ve created tens of thousands of jobs, and in all due respect — and actually some of these folks I really like a lot — but I’m the only one that can say that. I have created tens of thousands of jobs, and I’ll be creating many millions of jobs if I’m given — if I’m given the opportunity to be president.
As far as Mark is concerned, as far as the visas are concerned, if we need people, they have — it’s fine. They have to come into this country legally. We have a country of borders. We have a country of laws. We have to obey the laws. It’s fine if they come in, but they have to come in legally.
http://time.com/4091301/republican-debate-transcript-cnbc-boulder/
