Trump is right — our failed public school system means the US needs H-1B talent

In the 10 months since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has forcibly deported half a million illegal immigrants and compelled another 1.6 million to voluntarily self-deport. And thanks to his crackdown on unfettered student visas and low-skilled J-1 visas, the total temporary “nonimmigrant” population in the country is expected to fall by 120,000 migrants this year.

All in all, the nation’s total immigrant population — legal and illegal — is falling for the first time in half a century.

But Trump is correctly refusing to eliminate high-skilled immigration into the country. During an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Trump admitted that the United States doesn’t “have certain talents” in its domestic labor force, necessitating the use of H1-B visas...