President-elect Donald Trump has voiced his support for the H1-B visa program, which allows highly skilled foreign workers to enter the US, reigniting a heated debate between his traditional supporters and tech industry figures like Elon Musk.
WASHINGTON — US President-elect Donald Trump weighed in Saturday in a bitter debate dividing his traditional supporters and tech barons like Elon Musk , saying that he backs a special visa program that helps highly skilled workers enter the country. 'I've always liked the (H1-B) visas, I have always been in favor of the visas, that's why we have them' at Trump-owned facilities, the president-elect told the New York Post in his first public comments on the matter since it flared up this week.
An angry back-and-forth, largely between Silicon Valley's Musk and traditional anti-immigration Trump backers, has erupted in fiery fashion, with Musk even vowing to 'go to war' over the issue.Trump's repeated calls for sharp curbs on immigration were central to his election victory in November over President Joe Biden. Trump has vowed to deport all undocumented immigrants and limit legal immigration.Tech entrepreneurs like Tesla's Musk — as well as Vivek Ramaswamy, who is set to join Musk in co-chairing a government cost-cutting panel — say the United States produces too few highly skilled graduates, and they fervently champion the H1-B program.Musk, who migrated from South Africa on an H1-B, posted Thursday on his X platform that luring elite engineering talent from abroad was 'essential for America to keep winning.'Adding acrimony to the debate was a post from Ramaswamy, the son of immigrants from India, who deplored an 'American culture' that he said venerates mediocrity, adding that the United States risks having 'our asses handed to us by China.'That angered several prominent conservatives who were backing Trump long before Musk noisily joined their cause this year, going on to pump more than $250 million into the Republican's campaign.'Looking forward to the inevitable divorce between President Trump and Big Tech,' said Laura Loomer, a far-right MAGA figure known for her conspiracy theories, who often flew with Trump on his campaign plan
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