NY Post: Trump supports immigration visas backed by Musk: ‘I have many H-1B visas on my properties’
“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.
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.
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.”
“Stop trying to optimize something that shouldn’t exist,” a line often used by Musk, Mackey wrote. “Let’s optimize H-1B,” he sarcastically added.
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.”
“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,” he added, paragraphing a memorable line from the 2008 comedy “Tropic Thunder.”
The tech billionaire has been criticized by MAGA diehards including Laura Loomer and Ann Coulter — who say the H-1B visa program has been abused and needs to be sharply curtailed.
And influential voices around Trump have publicly begun turning on Musk as well.
“Someone please notify ‘Child Protective Services’— need to do a ‘wellness check’ on this toddler,” former White House Counselor Steve Bannon jeered at the X boss in a Saturday post to his account on Gettr.
Musk said his passion for the issue stemmed from wanting America to remain competitive by attracting “the top ~0.1% of engineering talent” which he said was essential for “America to keep winning.”
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Vivek Ramaswamy, who is slated to run the Department of Government Efficiency with Musk, backed Musk and offered a critique of American society.
“American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence,” Ramaswamy wrote on X.
Trump means Eastern European models though. If Trump doesn’t kick all Indians out we will be at war with Trump by mid-point 2025. Indians are worse than wetbacks because the corporations give them all the decent tech jobs and Americans have nothing left but cleaning toilets which the werbacks take. There will be civil war yet. Trump will not stop the civil war because he is a retard boomer who can’t see Indians are a plague.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-afd-germany-welt-am-sonntag-2006969
Actually, this particular thing we see with Indian H1B’s and Indian outsourcing of everything under the sun is because Jews are so heavily invested in India. Look it up on Google – right now, go ahead. Israel is heavily invested in India. They realize that there is potential for enormous economic growth in India, just like China, and they want a piece of that growth. India allows them to invest (the East Asians usually do not), and so they got heavily invested there. And, now that they are, they are trying to grow their investments as fast as possible.
That’s why we have so many Indian immigrants, Indian outsourcing, etc. We could have more Chinese, Korean, and every other ethnicity of immigrants too, but they choose not to do that. I think we’ve all seen by now the charts showing that the H1B is so heavily and unnecessarily skewed towards Indians. It’s the Jews again.