US President Donald Trump said he “loves his conservative friends and MAGA" but defended the H-1B visa on Wednesday while addressing the US-Saudi Investment Forum.

He said he does not expect companies to “open a massive computer chip factory for billions and billions of dollars" and “hire people off an unemployment line to run it", adding that foreign workers can come teach American people skills and then head back home.

“You can’t come in, open a massive computer chip factory for billions and billions of dollars like is being done in Arizona, and think you’re gonna hire people off an unemployment line to run it. They’re gonna have to bring thousands of people with them and I’m gonna welcome those people. This is MAGA," Trump said.

The US President appeared to suggest some in his base a

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