as david french, writes, each abuse builds on the next. the only clear winner is the imperial presidency. the loser is our constitutional republic and each trump fan cheering his raw power grab. i want to bring in nbc s geoff bennett at the white house and nbc s julia ainsley who covered justice and national security. walk us through it and what exactly it means. he was tweeting about h 1 b visas. here s the thing people should know. president trump signed an executive order in the spring of 2017 to tighten the rules for tech firms that bring in foreign workers to fill needs not met by american workers. that order instructed agencies to recommend changes so that these h 1 b visas are granted
is actually diversity. when you consider that almost half of of the fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants, you would understand this. of support laura: legal immigrants, right? yes, legal immigrants. laura: we are not against legal immigrants. have to say this. 80% of graduate students of the united states in the field of computer science in electrical engineering are international students, and in order for those students to stay, they need to operate on h1b visas. and so they are not necessarily going to take the track of permanent residency because that takes many years. these companies, and many, many ways, have been supported and propped up by people who don t have that linear a path to immigration. so it is really not a black and white issue. and i don t think they see it as laura: why are they so dejected by trump winning? trump was going to do one thing, and michelle come i want you to join in.
they did it, from the officials of the same. he wants to penalize legal immigrants who use public benefits. even the earned income tax credit. why? to get him to go out. he wants to nix visas. if anyone related to an applicant has used such benefits he wants to change the lottery visa access system. he wants to change h 1 b visas. those are the kind that let in the exact same workers that he told the ceo s he would help with. what s the justification? it s that all of this should be merit based. this is the part that i think should bother you the most. it flies in the face of his efforts to reduce high skilled workers. as i mentioned, right? if you want high skilled workers and you want it to be merit based, you should be on the same page there, but he isn t.
and we know that would happen if they did it, from the officials of the same. he wants to penalize legal immigrants who use public benefits. even the earned income tax credit. why? to get him to go out. he wants to nix visas. if anyone related to an applicant has used such benefits he wants to change the lottery visa access system. he wants to change h 1 b visas. those are the kind that let in the exact same workers that he told the ceo s he would help with. what s the justification? it s that all of this should be merit based. this is the part that i think should bother you the most. it flies in the face of his efforts to reduce high skilled workers. as i mentioned, right? if you want high skilled workers
it s nowhere in your plan and the president has never said it. steve? chris, get rid of h1b visas, control the border, protect america, protect our sovereignty and our security. look, he didn t separate them, the parents separated themselves from the children when they made the willful decision to illegally cross our border. if you had done it the way it was done, your numbers aren t better, they are worse. you re right, we ll see what happens over time. they chose to cross our border. they chose that. that s true. they broke the law. it is a misdemeanor. i don t see you guys going out and rounding up everybody that has a dui. those are felonies. i m saying how we enforce the law matters. the reason bush and obama were more selective in their