Much to her surprise, Trump said it right on Laura Ingram's show even though she tried to guide him to the RIGHT answer. America has no talent, according to the Big Orange, but then he gives mixed signals about how exactly the program would work. The ICE raid on the Georgia plant was, to use Trump's words, a pure disaster.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-GyEBS5R9g

with a sledgehammer.

But in regular manufacturing. I gonna say Americans don’t want to work in factories doing assembly line work.Doing the same thing, for 8-10 hours a day isn’t for them. Getting paid $18-$20 an hour.
I started out in a factory in the early 70’s and I can tell you, todays workers aren’t doing that shit

It's also in the service industry unless it's a tipped position.  

Robots and AI will be taking over a lot of those positions. The ones remaining require physical intervention, such as the trades, e.g. plumbing, mechanical repair, cosmetology, electrical wiring, etc. Hunger is a strong motivator.

These family run factories aren’t financially able to make an investment like robots .Especially in this topsy-turvy economy.They’ll need to continue hiring labor who will do the job and at a rate where it’s profitable.
These shops aren’t GM or Amazon.

...and you've surveyed the privately owned manufacturing facilities across the country?

There, I said it …now what ?

There are a few privately held manufacturing companies in my neck of the woods with two I'm very familiar with and I'd say differently.  One had integrated 3D printing into their engineering over a generation ago and both have already moved into robotics.  One shop has CNC machines running 24/7 with robotic assist all the way from automatic feed of steel & aluminum stock to loaded on racks waiting for the QA and shipping.  They are testing with AI QA right now to cover that step.   No, they're not rolling around the plant emptying garbage yet or making coffee but they are putting out Million$ in product for the little "mom & pops".   They're still hiring too.

Farms are switching over to AI and robots.   Look at the milking industry.   Robots were starting to get integrated about 10 years ago or so in the dairy/milk farms.   Only need about 4-5 farm hands to run a dairy 24/7.  Compared to in the past when you needed double that to run milk shifts, feeding, moving cattle, clean up, etc.   Then the other farm chores of crops, maintenance, etc.     Yeah the costs is up there but the return is paid for in about 5-7 years.   When you take away work comp insurance, lost hours, less wages paid, housing costs for employees, etc.... plus money can be invested in other area's of the farm.

We do need the H1 visa's and others.    But we need to regulate and know where people are.   It can't be the "free for all" that it has been.  Especially with people over staying Visa's.   That is the issue.   Plus the "big orange" wants to make more money off those Visa's.   Now his price tag is ridiculous.   But he does have a good idea.   Especially when many times with Visa holders much of the money leaves the country. (they send it back home to family)    

 
But like mentioned by many here.    US citizens are lazy and dont want to work.   It is sad but true.   They see $20 an hour factory job as "shit work".   When they can actually make good money, get good promotion with in, get good benefits, possibly go union, etc.    But it is "shit work".   They have been feed the lie of "go to college" and get a $75K a year job right out of college.   Which is straight bullshit.    They never are told that about 45% of people who get a degree actually use that degree in their profession.    Sorry off topic.

 
But this shows you why the Visa's workers are needed until US Citizens get their heads out of their asses.     The whole "they took our jobs" is correct because you didn't want those jobs.     But now you will see many of those jobs being lost to AI and robotics.    Just look at fast food industry and how stores are being run.   You don't see 5 registers in new stores.... you see 2 and 4 kiosks.   You see people ordering on APPS.    Same goes for even more restaurants..... you don't see the big seating like you used too.   Smaller venues and seating area.   More "door dash" orders being sold, etc.    This isn't with VISA workers but showing how things are shifting for those "unskilled" type jobs.   Which I argue are not unskilled.  They require people who have good people skills in some instances.   But that is even becoming lost in the younger generation coming up.  

 
Sorry went all off topic.    But it is what you are seeing out in the real world.

....only huge public companies and VC owned properties can apply robotics to their labor strategy.  The family farm and family owned industrial co's cannot afford such things.  However, It's no secret that John Deere was incorporating GPS into their equipment in the 90's and in the last 10 years, autonomous equipment has become commonly used.  
Maybe Hypogork should let John Deere and Kubota that those cool add-on features are only meant for the "corporate" farmers, not the mom & pops?!

I guess he hasn't looked into dairy operations.    It is happening and has been for about 10 years.   Family farmers are doing it.    Costs up front depending on size of dairy can be $1M.

 
He will say "farmers" cant afford $1M or small farms can't afford that.   Many "small" farms get operation loans every year for $200-$500K.   USDA only allows up to $400K, but private banks can go higher.  This is for crop inputs alone with maybe some equipment mixed in.   Now if they wanted to revamp an operation for years to come.  The $1M price tag or loan isn't out of line.    But again.... I digress and another topic.

 
But is showing how all aspects are moving and shifting towards automation.   Even the labor driven industries such as "farms".  I wont even get into how new machinery practically drive themselves (once planted take the GPS chip and insert into combine and it will follow the path), do bushel counts, know how heavy or light to seed/fertilize the soil..... all of this is getting more and more automated.   This is simple crop farming going this technological route.

In revenue? I know the milking industry has used those nipple sucker to drain the milk. Its been like that forever. Its a cookie cutting industry,  
Non cookie cutting industries, say apparel or factory furniture or cabinet manufacturers who specialize in a limited amount of production of sku's isn't investing in a AI robot, the bill of a 300k robot and the upkeep would be too much for a small company who's revenue is 5M or less.
These industries are almost of a custom make manufacturer or I as I refer to as a "style" shop. Every "style" is different in it construction. The system update to keep up, the maintenance, the parts, the personal to manage the data and just to run the system. Nah, these small shops ain't doing this.
And most companies look for an ROI of less then 3 years, anything over that would be a deal breaker.

The milk/dairy industry.... farming... big ones are doing over $5M.    

 
The robotics is using to feed cattle, clean cattle, move cattle, apply the "sucker", reject milk (know which cattle are taking antibiotics),  etc.    Then let alone if these dairies are also producing cheese products.    

 
Get outside of your bubble.

Again, small companies can’t make those investments  
Figure it out… common sense… duhhh

Small dairies are MOM AND POP.... and making over $1M investments in robotics.    Yeah..... figure it out.

 
These are single family farms.   100 cattle operations.    NOT BIG OPERATIONS.     But you are ignoring exactly what I am saying.

 
I also brought up the fact you mentioned $5M rev producing.... big dairy is doing the same which is $5M+ revenue.

 
Small grocery stores are switching to self-check outs, those cost about $30K for a single machine.   Now add in they get 2-4 of them.   $120K upfront investment, then set up costs, etc.    With food margins around 15-20% when it comes to groceries.  That is a huge investment.  especially for small town groceries who are already losing out to your bigger stores.   I am talking about grocery stores in towns of 4000 or less people.   Yeah.... the mom and pop stores.   They are switching to these self-check outs.  

 
Get outside of your bubble.

that just dropped $25K for a large laser cutter/plotter & software.  That's not a great example of robotics entering the mom & pop sector but he did just land a job to map out a 18K sq ft warehouse for a local firm that does dry food manufacturing/processing.  This is a 3rd generation family run business with about 40 emps and revenues well above $20 mil.  They had a nasty and preventable warehouse injury with forklift vs person last year and numerous product loss incidents in the past by operator error in the warehouse.  They are in the process of installing an autonomous, self-driven forklift that won't operate with any human presence within so many feet as determined by the programmer.   It will replace 3-4 staff, lower utility costs and drop work comp substantially.   I've heard they're dropping about $2.25M into the program.