Posted on 12/28/2024 11:31:01 AM PST by thegagline
President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers, appearing to side with Elon Musk in the roiling intra-MAGA debate on the issue.
“I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” Trump said by phone, referring to the H-1B program, which permits companies to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations.
“I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program,” added Trump, who restricted access to foreign worker visas in his first administration and has been critical of the program in the past. Oara Musk and other tech barons argued this week that the H-1B visa program is critical to ensuring American companies can find highly skilled labor which may not be easily available in the U.S. labor force and must be expanded.
MAGA hardliners want Trump to follow through with his promise to promote US workers and impose tougher restrictions on immigration.
Trump’s Saturday comments come a day after Musk vowed to go to “war” on the issue, telling one mocking opponent to go “f–k yourself.”
*** Musk fired back: “The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla, and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B.” ***
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Trump’s position on this has always been clear - no illegal immigration, but yes to legal immigration from people the US wants and needs. H1-B abuses need to be stopped, there’s no denying that - but if you want all legal immigration stopped, Trump never agreed to that.
Well this is going to drop like a lead brick...
The Gaslight Media apparently is right back to its old tricks, undeterred by their drubbing in November.
The H1B workers can’t vote. The workers that lost their jobs to H1B workers can vote.
Exactly. Throughout the campaign, Trump mentioned that illegal immigration was going to be stopped.
Legal immigration is fine.
Remember Trump's wife is an immigrant.
Why can’t this be two things.
No to open border illegal immigration.
Yes to legal immigration but with reforms. He was reforming it in his last admin. Biden undid it with a stroke of a pen.
Instead, we dance on the string of those who seek to divide us. It’s all this or all that. No thanks. I will think for myself.
Get rid of the illegals first and then we can talk about how many people can come here legally.
He should there is plenty of people here already - shut the door.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4286865/posts?page=79#79
He told anyone with a problem with H-1Bs to Eff Off:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4286865/posts?page=72#72
Start combing Twitter for examples of h1b visas. It is disgusting to think you can’t get a plumber or cook or laborer in the US and have to go to India to get one.
Stop letting the Left play you. And stop expecting lockstep on everything, it will never exist.
I’m with Trump and Musk on this issue.
So he sold his base out.
Again
This is a complete reversal of what Trump said before 2016. He railed against Disney for Americans training their H1-B replacements. Trump sold out
Nothing wrong with allowing real talent into the country. It’s the criminals, the terrorists, and the ones who sponge off the system that we don’t need.
PresidentTrump, if you betray the America first base and when you will Congress in the 2026 midterms then you’ll be impeached and put in prison. I hope the betrayal was worth it.
I am going to call your bullsh^t right there kiryandil. You know that I have backed Trump 100% but this is a craven act of betrayal by Trump and he will pay a political price for it.
I tend to think these cases of smallish companies getting an H1B plumber or pickleball coordinator are using the system to sponsor a relative to come over because the que is shorter. It costs more, but the wait is much shorter.
It’s still abuse and must be stopped.
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