Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

Trump was explicit on #H1B last night in Detroit - here is the transcript:

KELLY: Mr. Trump, your campaign website to this day argues that more visas for highly skilled workers would, quote, "decimate American workers". However, at the CNBC debate, you spoke enthusiastically in favor of these visas. So, which is it?

TRUMP: I'm changing. I'm changing. We need highly skilled people in this country, and if we can't do it, we'll get them in. But, and we do need in Silicon Valley, we absolutely have to have.

So, we do need highly skilled, and one of the biggest problems we have is people go to the best colleges. They'll go to Harvard, they'll go to Stanford, they'll go to Wharton, as soon as they're finished they'll get shoved out. They want to stay in this country. They want to stay here desperately, they're not able to stay here. For that purpose, we absolutely have to be able to keep the brain power in this country.

(APPLAUSE)

KELLY: So you abandoning the position on your website...

TRUMP: ... I'm changing it, and I'm softening the position because we have to have talented people in this country.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/03/the-fox-news-gop-debate-transcript-annotated/

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It was reported today that Trump has further clarified his position since the debate last night. The confusion was that Ms Kelly asked about "highly skilled workers" and did not specifically refer to the H1B program and its abuse. I think the way the question was posed caught Trump off guard.

It is a shame that Ms Kelly's question was not more to the point. Why ask about tech visas without putting them in the proper context of the program's abuses? Maybe Silicon Valley legitimately needs to import tech workers, but Verizon absolutely does not.

And why did Ms Kelly not followup to Cruz's answer that he, as President, would call for a 6 month moratorium and investigation? The obvious followup is, "As a sitting Senator, Mr Cruz, why do you not call for an investigation RIGHT NOW, and why did you not call for an investigation before you tried last year to quintuple the number of annual visas?"

From the Trump website today:

(https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-position-on-visas):

"Megyn Kelly asked about highly-skilled immigration. The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions."

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