President Trump has always said he wants LEGAL immigrants so what’s the problem? The answer is there is no problem; no inconsistency and the writer is just talking to hear himself talk. Go away asshole.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
No matter how many ways you and others try to say differently, he is departing from the stances he took on legal immigration during the campaign and since.
Here is the written policy (which isn't easy to find) from the 2016 campaign with several points about cutting back on H1-Bs and requiring that hiring be done from the domestic pool of available employees.
Trump's written immigration policy paper from 2016 campaign
This does not mean anyone here is dropping their support of Trump. but it does mean he will likely lose the votes of some Republicans who will stay if they feel betrayed on the issues most important to them.
He also supported the Raise Act introduced by Senator Tom Cotton in February of 2017. That act would have reduced legal immigration from 1,000,000 plus to 500,000 and made several other significant changes in legal immmigration.
What he is saying now is a fairly drastic departure from what he ran on and what he supported early in his administration.