Trump on South Koreans for Deportation: ICE Was Doing Right But We Need to Work Out How to Bring Experts in to Train Americans

Trump: “You know, when they’re building batteries, if you don’t have people in this country right now that know about batteries, maybe we should help them along and let some people come in and train our people to do complex things, whether it’s battery manufacturing or computer manufacturing or building ships. So we’re going to look at that whole situation. We have a lot of industries that we don’t have anymore and we’re going to have to train people. And the way you train people is bring people in that know what they’re doing and let them stay for a little while and help. So I’m going to look at that. It’s a very interesting situation that took place in Georgia. We heard about it yesterday. At the same time, ICE was doing right because they were here illegally. But we do have to work something out where we bring in experts so that our people can be trained so they could do it themselves. Does that make sense? Right?”
Reporter: “Is is straining your relationship with Korea at all?”
Trump: “No, we have a great relationship with South Korea. Really good relationship. You know, we just made a trade deal. But I’m going to — I’m going to look at it because I understand exactly what they’re saying.”