Posted on 12/28/2024 9:03:26 AM PST by DallasBiff
Elon Musk pledged Friday night to go to "war" to defend the H-1B visa program for foreign tech workers, branding some Republican opponents as "hateful, unrepentant racists."
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"America rose to greatness over the past 150 years, because it was a meritocracy more than anyplace on Earth.
I will fight to my last drop of blood to ensure that it remains the land of freedom and opportunity."
Weird that I couldn't copy and paste the above and had to type it myself.
That said where did Musk say that branded anybody "hateful, unrepentant racists"?
Musk was defending meritocracy and what is wrong with that?
Still trust Trump.
Flame away.
He must be off his Adderall.
Musk was not hired on over H1b. I’m sure he sees a legitimate need.
I’ll go with whatever Trump decides.
Elon is naive shooting off his mouth on this.
However, IF we start to throw out 20 million illegals, I’m not going to sweat some legals.
We need to get these illegals out, and secure the country with laws so they can’t just come back via executive order.
As for H1b, train more engineers.
Workers coming in need to be exhaustively vetted and bio-metrics taken for future identification. Remaining past their legal dates, visas etc. should fall on the hiring companies that brought them in as penalties so our focus should be on this vs. an all or nothing approach.
Well that didn’t take long lol
The lefty media is pushing this crap and the never Trumper, leftist progressives and RINO trolls are eating it up. Pay it no mind, it’s all conconcted and a LIE.
Time and again, Musk and Vivek are mis-represented, mostly by liberal Democrats and other troublemakers. Often, outright lies are made about what Musk or Vivek supposedly said. Pay heed. Take the care to read their actual words. Don’t let others add or subtract. Read the exact literal quote. Unless you are intent on picking a fight, their words are not unreasonable.
Here’s where it started
Shortly after the first visa program
Video
H-1B Visa - 1995 report from 48 Hours and Dan Rather about replacing American workers with people from India
https://rumble.com/v63nssd-h-1b-visa-1995-report-from-48-hours-and-dan-rather.html
I agree...nowhere in that story was that shown.
Agree 100% but until the education system is reformed, legal high skill workers, properly vetted are needed.
This is why this has to be dealt with now.
The wealthy are foreign to the majority of the people. They should not be involved with the governance of the common man. This is a good example of why.
Nothing says “meritocracy” more than a $27k a year cafeteria worker from Delhi.
Vance on the other side.
Between these two Deep Staters, on this issue, I’m with Vance.
The illegal immigrants are sticking together. Trump should fire both of them for their anti-American stance.
Only if we charge an annual fee, like $50,000, for each H1B resource to ensure that these companies are not cheating and simply looking for a cheaper resource.
Importing cheap labor is only making the situation worse by depressing wages and opportunities in the industry.
Also, stripping human capital from developing nations is also immoral.
End the H1B program altogether, and AMERICANS will fill those jobs !!
Elon is going to talk himself right out of a job if he isn’t careful.
I’ve argued that because Elon and Vivek are greedy er smart businessmen they are exactly the scalpel we need to cut the fat from the Bureaucracy.
They are smart enough to know that the H1B program is a con designed to benefit the tech titans. Of course they will defend it at all cost. That’s why Trump needs to keep them strictly dealing with DOGE and avoid mission creep which they are already engaging in.
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