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One county commissioner wrote on X, that “We’ve never seen an administration crash & burn in its first year so badly”.
During his campaign for the 2024 Presidential Election, U.S. President Donald Trump promised his voters that he would crack down on immigration and initiate the largest deportation in the history of the United States.
It’s now been roughly a year since he made the promises, and The White House’s official website has reported, that Trump has delivered on basically every promise about immigration, he made.
But now Trump is facing backlash from his MAGA voter base over comments about immigration made in an interview.
And especially his comments about American’s job skills have sparked anger.
What did he say?
Speaking with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday, Trump said the United States must “bring in talent” through the H-1B visa program, a pathway often used by technology firms to hire specialist workers from abroad.
When Ingraham pushed back, saying there were “talented people” already in America, Trump dismissed the suggestion.
“No you don’t,” he replied. “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 and we’re going to make missiles.’”
Anger among supporters
According to The Independent, the comments triggered outrage across MAGA circles, with many accusing Trump of betraying his long-standing “America First” platform.
“This is insane—we are going to lose the mid-terms so badly,” wrote Florida county commissioner Anthony Sabatini, a prominent Trump ally, in a post on X. “We’ve never seen an administration crash & burn in its first year so badly—for no reason other than to appease donors & special interests.”
Right-wing commentator Mike Cernovich also weighed in, saying, “Trump broke everyone’s heart with this line about the American workforce and H-1B’s.”
A divided response
Not everyone on the right shared the anger, though.
Conservative commentator Scott Jennings defended the president’s statement, arguing on CNN that “you can be America First and also recognize there may be times that you can import talent from other countries that makes America stronger.”
Jennings added that the United States has relied on international expertise “for decades.”
The Independent reported that Trump has shifted his stance on H-1B visas multiple times, first promising to abolish the system and later pledging to expand it. His recent pivot aligns with efforts to court Silicon Valley figures as part of his broader reelection strategy.
The politics of H-1B
The H-1B visa program has long divided both major parties. Supporters view it as essential to maintaining the U.S. edge in science and technology, while critics argue that it allows companies to replace domestic workers with cheaper, temporary labor from abroad.
Sources: The Independent, Fox News, CNN. The White House
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