'We need people': Trump calls for immigrating to the USA

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he welcomes more legal immigrants, as companies returning to the United States need additional workers.

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“I need people to come because we need people to run the factories and factories and companies that come back,” he told a group of journalists from regional newspapers. “We need people.”

The reply followed his Appeal to the Nation, in which he urged immigrants to legally enter the United States in "the largest quantities ever."

This immediately attracted the attention of immigration advocates, because it contradicted the hard position of the Trump administration regarding immigration, including the president’s desire to build a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico.

The Trump administration has also begun to reduce legal immigration. The president issued fewer visas, approved fewer refugees, ordered the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of legal residents whose home countries suffered from war and natural disasters, and prompted Congress to enact laws that drastically reduced the entire legal immigration system.

At a Wednesday briefing with regional reporters, Trump was asked whether his State of the Union address was about allowing in more legal immigrants — and changing policies.

“Yes,” he said, “because we need people in our country because our unemployment rate is very low and we have a huge number of companies coming back to our country.”

Trump has repeatedly stated that he supports immigrants entering the country legally.

“We do need people, but it has to be a legal process and a process that actually has merit,” he said last week at a meeting on human trafficking at the southern border. “But we want people to come to our country.” They must come legally.”

Groups that advocate for lower levels of legal and illegal immigration, have supported Trump's immigration measures in the past two years, were stunned by his statement during a speech in Congress. His comments on Wednesday, in which he made clear that he wanted more foreigners to work in the US, shook them.

Ira Melman, a spokeswoman for the US Immigration Reform Federation, called Trump's proposal a “bad government policy” and a change in his position as a presidential candidate and as president.

“Immigration to the United States is legally important, but so is the number of people coming to the United States,” Mehlman said. “Mass immigration, legal or illegal, is eroding the jobs and wages of many Americans and overburdening vital social institutions and the social safety net. The President appears to be ignoring the impact of excessive immigration on American society."

The US Chamber of Commerce for a long time insisted on expanding and revising national programs for guest workers, especially as unemployment declined and businesses struggled to fill vacancies.

“This is a welcome development as companies in many industries have told us they are unable to meet their workforce needs,” John Baslis, the chamber's director of immigration policy, said of Trump's remarks. “We look forward to working with Congress and the Trump Administration to advance overall immigration reforms that meet the economic and workforce needs of the American business community.”

On Wednesday, Trump said that seven US companies are returning to the US, and "there will be many more."

It is true that several automakers have announced plans to postpone production of cars in the United States since Trump took office. Most importantly, Toyota and Mazda have announced plans to build a 1,6 billion-dollar plant in Huntsville, Alabama, the only new autonomous plant announced by major automakers after Trump's inauguration.

Some fear the possible consequences of changing the configuration of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which provides for a fine for importing cars.

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