President Donald Trump’s defense of the H-1B visa program during a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham this week set off one of the sharpest MAGA backlashes of his presidency.

Pressed by Ingraham on whether he would continue allowing large numbers of foreign skilled workers into the country, Trump rejected her argument that the U.S. should “raise wages for American workers” instead of flooding “the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands” of foreign workers.

“I agree,” he said, “but you also do have to bring in talent.” When Ingraham countered, “We have plenty of talented people here,” Trump replied: “No, you don’t, no you don’t … you don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn.”

Trump cited as an example a Georgia manufacturing plant that was recently raided

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