US President Donald Trump once again defended the H-1B visas, saying overseas workers are needed to train American workers.

“If you are going to be making chips, we don’t make chips too much here anymore. We are going to be…in a period of a year, we are going to have a big portion of the chip market. But we have to train our people how to make chips. We used to do it, and foolishly we lost that business to Taiwan,” Trump said while addressing reporters at the White House.

Last week, Trump, in an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, supported the H-1B visa programme.

When asked if his administration planned to deprioritise H-1B visas. He replied, “You do have to bring in talent.”

When Ingraham countered, “We have plenty of talent,” Trump responded, “No, you don’t.”

“You don't have

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