Raja Krishnamoorthi says if US doesn’t bring talent from other countries, jobs will go to those countries.
Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (Democrat-Illinois) said the US can’t function without immigrants amid the ongoing H-1B row. Speaking to a former adviser of ex-President Biden, Ajay Jain Bhutoria, Krishnamoorthi said if US does not bring the talent from other countries, the jobs will go to those countries as no company will wait for Americans to gain those specific skills. The comment from the Indin-American Congressman comes as the Donald Trump administration is embroiled in a major H-1B row — providing clarifications one after another to firefight the MAGA civil war triggered by Donald Trump’s recent comment that America needs certain talents from other countries — like chip making, battery making etc. America First activists reject Trump’s stand and claim that Americans have those skills but CEOs put pressure on administration to hire cheap labor from outside. “The President does not support American workers being replaced… The President wants to see the American manufacturing industry revitalised better than ever before. That’s part of what he’s doing with his effective use of tariffs and cutting good trade deals around the world,” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a recent remark coming from the administration on this issue. “No company is going to wait around for you to have the right skills. Instead, they’re going to send the work overseas,” Raja Krishnamoorthi said, supporting Trump’s stand on H-1B. “This country cannot run without immigrants and it can’t run without H-1B or without other high-skilled talent, and so we just have to be candid about this,” the Congressman said, adding that H-1B should be reformed and there should be no abuses of the system. “I know for a fact that our skill-based and vocational education is not world-class. We have to spend more time cultivating the skills of our indigenous workforce to take the jobs of the future. We are not preparing them well and we are not skilling them for the jobs that exist,” Krishnamoorthi said calling immigration a great thing for US.
