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H-1B Visa
Donald Trump spoke in favour of hiring "competent people" across industries under H-1B visa programme | Photo courtesy: Donald Trump Facebook page

I don't want to stop, but also want competent people: Donald Trump on H-1B visa

| @indiablooms | Jan 22, 2025, at 01:37 pm

Washington D.C./IBNS: US president Donald Trump on Tuesday said he doesn't intend to stop H-1B visa but batted in favour of hiring competent people across all industries.

Trump said this when a journalist asked whether the president, who was sworn in on Monday, wants to keep or do away with H-1B visas.

The president said, "I like both sides of the argument, but I also like very competent people coming into our country, even if that involves them training and helping other people that may not have the qualifications they do. I don't want to stop.

"We want competent people coming into our country. And H-1B, I know the programme very well. I use the programme. Maître d', wine experts, even waiters, high-quality waiters, you've got to get the best people. People like Larry, he needs engineers, NASA also needs... engineers like nobody's ever needed them."

"So, we have to have quality people coming in. Now by doing that, we're expanding businesses and that takes care of everybody," Trump added speaking at a press conference.

The H-1B visa is a programme which is highly debated in the US with Tesla CEO Elon Musk backing it while several others claim the hiring of foreign workers deprive the Americans of job opportunities.

While the H-1B visa is still debatable, Trump on the first day of his second term took a number of bold decisions that included an executive order to do away with the birthright citizens in the US.

If set in motion, the order will end the automatic citizenship of children born in the US to non-citizen parents.

The executive order signed by Trump specified that a child born in the USA will be granted citizenship if at least one parent must be a US citizen, a legal permanent resident (green card holder), or a member of the US military.

"The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Commissioner of Social Security shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the regulations and policies of their respective departments and agencies are consistent with this order, and that no officers, employees, or agents of their respective departments and agencies act, or forbear from acting, in any manner inconsistent with this order," read the White House order.

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