Posted on 03/03/2016 7:16:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
Donald Trump on Thursday night said he's changing his stance on visas for highly skilled immigrant workers.
"I’m changing it, and I’m softening the position because we need to have talented people in this country," Trump said at the Fox News GOP debate in Michigan.
Trump's comments came after debate moderator Megyn Kelly raised the issue. Kelly noted that Trump had previously opposed those visas, saying they "decimate American workers," but appeared to change his position at an earlier CNBC debate. Trump said recipients of the visas go to high-profile U.S. universities and "desperately" want to remain in the country. He said they should be allowed to stay and work in places that need high-skilled workers, such as Silicon Valley.
"We need highly-skilled people in this country," Trump said. "For that purpose, we absolutely have to be able to keep the brainpower in this country."
I agree, I support Trump but this is a big negative. It just keeps the same crap going.
You misunderstood. I support him, but the H1-B reversal is devastating, and could cost him the Sessions endorsement. It was one of his principal arguments against Cruz, now gone. I just don't get it. Looking for Silicon Valley cash in the general?
You don’t understand ... there are a great many people that are new to the process solely because of Trump, and if Trump is robbed, they will be gone forever ...I am not new to the process and have voted Repub no matter what, for many years, but no longer - if Trump is robbed , I will sit it out and sit poolside with many others ... there is no other Repub candidate that will stop the imminent third world status that awaits us ... have fun with it ...
Deutschebank’s candidate won! They now own the U.S.!
Sometimes evolution is a scary thing.
Proof that a degree in Lesbians Studies is worthless.
He’s a business man....with a lot of money.
Nothing has changed much...1983 NYT…
“His alternating skills of charming some individuals and riding roughshod over others has earned Donald Trump a reputation in some quarters as someone not to be trusted. He reneged, for example, on a promise to donate to a museum the Art Deco bas- reliefs on the facade of Bonwit Teller’s - bulldozed to make way for Trump Tower. It was a sin deemed unforgivable by landmark preservationists. But the only negative comments about Donald Trump these days are given off the record.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/07/business/the-empire-and-ego-of-donald-trump.html?pagewanted=all
He's going to try and write an executive order to get those laws loosened to make lawsuits easier to win.
Reading those stories is a real eye opener.
Indian names. Japanese or Chinese, names that are Hungarian or Russian or Polish...hard to tell which in most cases.
Those are the kind of people Trump is saying that we need, and we do.
I would remind all that a German who started out working for Hitler, was brought to the US by our government to lead the US in the development of intercontinental missiles.....von Braun.
Without him, you might be in some prison camp today trying to learn to speak Russian.
Certainly there is nothing wrong with allowing the very best to come here. Actually it is smart because if they are here, they are not competing with us.
You are missing my point. It's not about this issue. It's about the fact that you can't trust someone who is untrustworthy and will just say whatever he thinks people want to hear.
You are now defending what. 'Trump and Cruz said.' But a few hours ago Trump's position was the exact opposite.
That's what I was making fun of. You though Trump was right 8 hours ago, then he changes his position 180 degrees, and you still think he's 100% right. Where is any line to be drawn? If Trump was president, he owes no loyalty to anything we might believe in.
And please don't complain if he gets elected that he 'betrayed' you. Because he makes it quite clear he has no core positions.
Sessions is not going to bail because Trump has said before some top brainpower will be encouraged/allowed to stay.
TRUMP ON IMMIGRATION: Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program’s lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
And lots of debt. And lots of creditors. And lots of illegal employees. And lots of Democrat friends and associates.
What is +1?
The one graphic that told me alot about the Trump University scandal in the debate tonight was showing the decision was from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
To use that court, the most overturned in the country to prove a point, is a giant FAIL right there.
Thumbs up. Agreement.
FR doesn’t have a way for us to vote on posts that we like.
Listen, I totally agree with you - I’ve been duped and duped and duped over the years ... last time I said NO MAS and sat it out - I couldn’t vote for Romney (that weasel ^$#@* as proved today) and it got us another four years of Obama.
The regular people can’t win .. screwed either way ... but had more people not thought like I did, Romney would have gotten in and at least the slide to Gommorrah would have been slowed down. And Obama wouldn’t be picking a Supreme Court Justice.
We can’t have Hillary picking a SCJ. We have to back whoever is the Republican candidate.
I wonder what Jeff Sessions thinks about this.
Trump sells out on H1B. The abuse and selling out continues now no matter who wins
I love Cruz but Trump, Trump, Trump.
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