By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-28 20:50:20 | Updated at 2024-12-29 13:03:34
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Trump Backs H-1B Visa Program After Elon Musk Vows ‘War’ During Fiery Online MAGA Debate
The Wrap via Yahoo ^ | December 28th, 2024 | Stephanie Kaloi
Posted on 12/28/2024 12:43:15 PM PST by Mariner
Elon Musk will “go to war” to defend the H-1B visa program in the United States, the tech CEO wrote on X, formerly Twitter, Friday night. Musk credited the program as “the reason” he is in the U.S. and added, “Take a big step back and F–K YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”
The fight over the H-1B visa program began Monday after Trump surrogate Laura Loomer criticized the president-elect’s nomination of Sriram Krishnan as White House senior policy adviser for Artificial Intelligence. “Our country was built by white Europeans, actually,” Loomer wrote on X. “Not third-world invaders from India. It’s not racist against Indians to want the original MAGA policies I voted for. I voted for a reduction in H-1B visas. Not an extension.”
Trump defended the visa program in a statement to the New York Post Saturday. “I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” he said. “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.”
It is believed that Krishnan supports removing a cap on H-1B visa applications. Both Musk and his fellow DOGE head Vivek Ramaswamy welcomed Krishnan’s nomination. “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long,” Ramaswamy wrote on X. “A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.”
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Trump must understand there is abuse of the program and the reality is far from what was envisioned when it was created.
Do gardeners and housekeepers qualify?
Apparently so.
1 posted on 12/28/2024 12:43:15 PM PST by Mariner
To: Mariner
No H-1B visa temporary worker has EVER voted for you, Trump.
Every country exists for its citizens and never for another country’s citizens.
2 posted on 12/28/2024 12:44:45 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Mariner
The devil’s in the details. It all depends on how “highly skilled” is defined. And highly skilled by itself, with the exception of perhaps the top 2-3%, shouldn’t be sufficient. Highly skilled AND in short supply should be the general criteria. And even “in short supply” can be abused to mean “in short supply at the wages I would prefer to pay”.
Suppression of wages goes against everything Trump has stood for over the past 9 years. He’s made it a priority to keep higher paying manufacturing jobs in America, which is why I don’t see him, when all is said and done, supporting a lax H1B program that facilitates wage suppression. But the MAGA base needs to continue to make its opposition heard, just in case.
3 posted on 12/28/2024 12:45:18 PM PST by mbrfl
To: ConservativeMind
H-1Bs working for consulting companies are fully employed by one employer the whole time they are being shopped around to client corporations.
That cannot be the original intent for the H-1B program.
What a scam on US citizens!
4 posted on 12/28/2024 12:46:23 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Mariner
I havent heard Trump say a thing on Truth Social and this is the exact OPPOSITE of what he said in 2016
To: Mariner
Yet another article about H1B.
To: mbrfl
If Trump doesn’t hold up his promises to protect American citizens he can FOAD. If Trump doesn’t limit the H-1b invasion and protect American workers he will lose congress in the 2026 midterms and may end up in prison. If Trump commits this betrayals d he goes to prison I will shoot off fireworks because that is what con artists deserve.
To: Mariner
“Take a big step back and F–K YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”
I think Trump will have to drop Musk by January 20th. There's no benefit having a powder keg in the kitchen cabinet.
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