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To: JudyinCanada; norsky

Elon Musk changes his tune on H1-B visas as he tries to cool raging MAGA civil war over skilled immigration

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Elon Musk admitted that the H1-B visas are “broken” and floated a potential fix as he sought to cool a raging civil war within the MAGA base over the immigration program for highly skilled foreign workers.

Just a day after vowing to “go to war on this issue” and telling detractors to “F— yourself,” Musk, the world’s richest man, acknowledged some of the criticisms of the program getting abused and argued that the US should make it more costly to hire foreigners.

“Easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically,” Musk wrote on X late Saturday in response to a thread claiming H1-B visas were being used to hire low-wage programmers and developers.

“I’ve been very clear that the program is broken and needs major reform,” he added. “I’m confident that the changes made in the @realDonaldTrump administration will make America much stronger.”


10,062 posted on 12/29/2024 11:18:07 AM PST by CottonBall (Next Jan, there’ll be a lot of housecleaning to do. Probably will need a lot of garbage trucks.)
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To: CottonBall

Lol I think they’ll forgive Elon a lot quicker than they will Vivek. At least Elon has acknowledge the abuse of the system being used for these Indian-first oligarchs to bring over as many of their countrymen, family and friends as possible. I wonder what the diversity range is over at Big Techs like Google. I wonder how many of the Big Tech employees have actually served in the military.

There is no mechanism in place to make sure these Money First Americans try and hire real Americans first. I think there are many imports in America for the sake of making money, and nothing else.


10,069 posted on 12/29/2024 2:35:31 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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