BANGALORE, India — Earlier this week, President Donald Trump made surprising comments about legal immigration.

In an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, the president defended the H-1B visa program.

“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,” Ingraham said.

“I agree, but you also have to bring in talent,” Trump responded. When Ingraham pushed back, saying, “We have plenty of talented people” in the U.S.”

“No, you don’t, no you don’t … you don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn,” Trump said.

But his vice president, JD Vance, said America needs to “empower” blue-collar workers instead of replacing them with foreign-born labor, signaling a rift in the administrati

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