President Donald Trump may be the toughest president the nation has ever had on the matter of illegal immigration. He has certainly been more effective than any other leader in a generation. But, at the same time, he has always valued limited, skilled immigration. “I’ve always liked the visas,” Trump said of H-1B visas last December. “I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them.”

But he has also criticized the way the visas are issued and to whom. At the first Republican primary debate, he said the visas were used “for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay.” He has promised to eliminate or reform the program, and he delivered on that promise with a major improvement on Sept. 22.