Willing to take MAGA heat: Trump backs foreign workers amid H-1B visa row

President Donald Trump has doubled down on the need to bring in skilled foreign workers to support America's tech industries, despite a backlash from MAGA supporters over his softening stance on H-1B visas. Speaking at the US-Saudi Investment Forum, Trump underscored that a foreign workforce was needed to "teach our people" to make "computer chips and other things".

Trump's emphatic pitch for foreign workers, even as his administration tightens rules around the H1-B visa programme, has angered his MAGA supporters, who have accused the President of losing touch with his "America First" agenda. The change in Trump's stance will be music for Indian professionals, who form the major chunk of the foreign workforce in the US.

Well aware of the resentment among his MAGA base, Trump tried to explain where foreign workers fit in his vision.