Donald Trump does a U-turn on H1-B visa issue, says US needs highly skilled workers

US Presidential front-runner Donald Trump changed his stance on the issue of H1B visas.

The Republican presidential front- runner said he was changing and softening his stand on the H1B visa issue as the US needed highly skilled workers.

Trump, in one of his speeches, had said that Indians were snatching jobs from Americans and had also vowed to get back jobs.

"I'm changing. I'm changing. We need highly skilled people in this country, and if we can't do it, we'll get them in. But, and we do need in Silicon Valley, we absolutely have to have," said Trump in Detroit.

Trump's website, however, calls for eliminating the H1-B class of visas that allow companies to import high-skilled workers from countries like India.

"We do need highly skilled, and one of the biggest problems we have is people go to the best colleges," Trump said.

"So you abandoning the position on your website?..." he was asked.

"I'm changing it, and I'm softening the position because we have to have talented people in this country," Trump said.

However, right after his statement, Trump issued a clarification.

"The H-1B programme is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay," Trump said.

"I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements," he said in his statement.