By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-28 19:47:00 | Updated at 2024-12-29 12:01:49
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Trump supports immigration visas backed by Musk: ‘I have many H-1B visas on my properties’
The New York Post ^ | 12/28/2025 | Jon Levine
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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2026election; best; brightest; concerntrolls; election2026; h1b; immigration; industry
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To those of you who were excoriating Musk regarding his H1B comments, Trump appears to have embraced Musk’s position. Feel free to engage in mental gymnastics, logical fallacies, and the much favored ad hominem attacks.
1 posted on 12/28/2024 11:31:01 AM PST by thegagline
To: thegagline
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.
To: thegagline
Well this is going to drop like a lead brick...
3 posted on 12/28/2024 11:34:02 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
To: thegagline
The Gaslight Media apparently is right back to its old tricks, undeterred by their drubbing in November.
4 posted on 12/28/2024 11:34:04 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: thegagline
The H1B workers can’t vote. The workers that lost their jobs to H1B workers can vote.
5 posted on 12/28/2024 11:36:03 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
Trump’s position on this has always been clear - no illegal immigration, but yes to legal immigration from people the US wants and needs.
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.
To: thegagline
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.
7 posted on 12/28/2024 11:36:13 AM PST by FlipWilson
To: Timber Rattler
Only the Useful Trump-Hating Idiots like your gang at the GOPee Briefing Room will slurp this Gaslight Media swill.
8 posted on 12/28/2024 11:36:47 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: All
Get rid of the illegals first and then we can talk about how many people can come here legally.
9 posted on 12/28/2024 11:37:54 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
He should there is plenty of people here already - shut the door.
10 posted on 12/28/2024 11:38:19 AM PST by datricker (Go Trump/Vance!)
To: thegagline
11 posted on 12/28/2024 11:38:41 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: thegagline
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.
12 posted on 12/28/2024 11:39:46 AM PST by RummyChick
To: Timber Rattler
Stop letting the Left play you. And stop expecting lockstep on everything, it will never exist.
13 posted on 12/28/2024 11:43:58 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
To: thegagline
I’m with Trump and Musk on this issue.
14 posted on 12/28/2024 11:45:49 AM PST by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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