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CNN contributor Scott Jennings said Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that Republicans can comprise on immigration by going after fraud in the H-1B Visa program.Jennings said, “There’s always been a push and pull on this in the Republican Party and I think there’s a way to work this out and solve it. I mean, I think what a lot of people would say is, and Elon Musk was making this point, if you take, like, the top 1% or the top 0.1% of the most talented engineering people from other countries, that’s perfectly fine. Do H-1B Visas for that. They’re...

Nicole Shanahan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate in 2024, said on Thursday that the H1-B visa program delivers “massive breaks” for cheap labor for tech companies, and those with the visas are essentially “indentured servants” for big tech.The selection of Siriam Krishnan as a senior policy adviser for artificial intelligence in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has sparked a widespread debate over the H1-B visa program, which conservatives have railed as “abusive” and designed to undercut wages of white-collar Americans.Vivek Ramaswamy further enflamed the controversy when he claimed that America “has venerated mediocrity over excellence.”Shanahan...

Six months ago, I was asked my opinion of the Silicon Valley alignment with MAGA. I said at the time I thought it would last around 18 months and finally climax with a large fracture in the political movement around 2026. I had no idea at the time, the group of technocrats would begin publicly advocating for replacing American workers before Trump took office.For the past several days I have watched Vivek Ramaswamy, David Sacks, Elon Musk and his big tech influencers debating with their followers about the importance for them to continue expanding H-1b visas for foreign tech workers....