Washington: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday staunchly defended legal immigration, saying he would welcome “thousands of people” from abroad to train American workers in tech-related industries.

“You can’t come in, open up a massive computer chip factory for billions and billions of dollars like it’s being done in Arizona and think you’re going to hire people from often unemployment line to run it. They’re going to have to bring thousands of people with them. I am going to welcome those people,” Trump said during a speech at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington.

He added that the foreign workforce would “teach our people” to make “computer chips and other things.”

“You are coming here, and you find that we don’t have people who did that before. We are allowing you… If you

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