Despite the Trump administration's overwhelming hostility to immigrants, there is one particular immigration issue that is triggering a civil war in the White House between President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, wrote the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board.

The issue involves H-1B visas, the program that allows highly skilled workers to enter the country and is widely used by the tech industry. This issue already fractured the MAGA base when tech billionaire Elon Musk, then still at the White House, pushed it to the forefront. But it never really went away, the board wrote.

"Mr. Trump made his views clear in an interview Tuesday with Laura Ingraham, a longtime opponent of immigration," wrote the board. "Asking about curbs on H-1B visas for high-skilled workers, the Fox News host told the President that 'if you want to raise wages for American workers, you can’t flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers.'" Trump, however, disagreed, saying, "you also do have to bring in talent," and “You don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn. You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say ‘I’m going to put you into a factory where you’re going to make missiles.’”

He even criticized his own administration's raid on South Korean nationals at a battery plant in Georgia earlier this year.

Vance, however, feels differently.

“My honest view is that, right now, America, thanks in part to the Biden border invasion, but also thanks in part to a lot of bad immigration policy, right now, we have let in too many immigrants,” he said at a recent Turning Point USA event, adding that legal immigrants are “undercutting the wages of American workers.”

This is wrong, the board wrote.

"On wages, Mr. Vance is repeating the lump of labor fallacy that American and foreign workers compete for a limited number of jobs," said the board. "Studies have generally found that immigration raises average wages and employment of native-born workers, in part because their work is complementary. Economists from the University of California, Davis, last year calculated that immigrants increased wages for less educated native workers by 1.7% to 2.6% between 2000 and 2019."

"For all of his campaigning against illegal immigration, Mr. Trump understands that America needs the world’s strivers to continue to prosper," the board concluded. "Perhaps he can make that case to his young apprentice."