“Vivek and Musk, if you look at what they are actually advocating, are not even close to advocating H1B fraud.”
The whole program as it is is fraudulent in that it allows (and requires) employers to claim no American can be found to do technical work. There might be just 100 openings per year wherein only a foreigner can do the job.
There is a difference between occupying a job slot and actually working
IMO, the entire program needs to be shuttered. I’m also sick and tired of student visas. Back in the fall of 1978, the Iranians were brought here to colleges. They made it very clear they didn’t want to be here. They rarely attended class, much less did their homework or bothered to take a test but suddenly the profs were grading on a bell curve and guess who got the As and who ended up on the bottom.
That’s the same game played with H1B applications and HR interviews. They automatically get brownie points so fake points get attached to the previous fake points so they get hired on a totally fake resume and the company gets their own point$.