President Donald Trump supports Elon Musk’s visa policies. He employs H-1B visa recipients. This is as a battle rages online against H-1B visas.
President-elect Donald Trump told The New York Post on Saturday that he supports H-1B visas, weighing in on a key issue that has caused a rift within his Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
“I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” Trump told The Post in a phone interview on Saturday.
“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,” he said.
Trump says he supports them for “highly skilled workers.”
This might quell the civil war over the H-1Bs. However, Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer have come out strongly against them.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, he apparently has changed his mind and forgot what he said in 2016. He was opposed to them.
#BREAKING: President Donald Trump supports Elon Musk-backed work visa policies, says, “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,” Trump said.
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In 2016, he opposed them.
Trump admitted H-1B visas were bad for American workers in 2016 and said he used them as a businessman but shouldn’t be allowed to.
He now claims to have always been in favor of the program.
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The visa program is a State Dept. function and the visa’s have been under-priced for generations meaning, the taxpayers pick up the direct and indirect costs. The US Chamber of Commerce supports the high end visas. There are visa’s for almost everything, like pay to play. The illegals follow the path of the visa holders who both overstay, get jobs, buy homes, have children (USC’s) and send money back home. The gov is going about fixing the program incorrectly and definitely not by mass deportation.
America and its educational system is not producing what American companies need.
WHY?
Yes they are. Companies want cheaper labor; labor they can exploit.
Let’s develop our own citizens so we don’t rely on H-1B visa’s for highly skilled labor. To do this we need the woke and progressive garbage out of our educational, vocational, and training systems. And let’s leave plug and play to the computer and keep it out of our employment practices. There are too many untapped resources right here at home. Companies should be subsidized to train American citizens based on aptitude not some leftist ideology. This is a MAGA strategy.
Having said this, I think the US H-1B visa should replace the entire immigration system. This way anybody who comes to the US has something of value to offer. That is MAGA.
And for God’s sake, remove that damn poem on the Statue of Liberty “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses….” We have enough poor people here.
I lost my job to one of these H-!B people. I trained my own replacement unbeknownst to me for over 2 months. Came to work and he was sitting at my desk and my stuff just thrown in two boxes, and the boss wanted to see me, actually the owner. I was given a months salary and told I was no longer needed after 21 years. It took over a year for my family to recover. I can’t believe Trump agrees with this. Whatever happened to America First that I voted for and donated to?
Then I can no longer support Trump. he has sold out to Musk – his price: $250 million.
Either Trump’s got to lose Elon–send him packing–or face a wide spread conclusion that he’s been scamming his base. These visas put citizens a distant last and are the antithesis of MAGA–pretty much in the same category as DEI Woke. Keep it up a bit longer and people will turn on him. It looks awfully like he’s in Musk’s (whose accomplishments, incidentally, have not really been anything very useful) pocket.
Are the products of our universities capable of competing with the visa crowd? This does not speak well for academia.
Yes they absolutely can compete. They’re using HB-1 for cheaper labor. It’s garbage and Trump had better change his tune and fast. Contact your House member and Senators.
Stood by Trump for 8 years.
If he doesn’t reconsider, I’m done with Trump.
Elon Musk is a LEFTIST, but he con’d everyone including Trump.
Yeah–and he’s showing what a nasty type he is too quickly.
These visas hurt middle class Americans,
DJT is selling out his base endorsing them.
MAGA is real, and powerful, and won’t put up with being sold out.
Yep. More and more he’s looking like a scam artist, taking advantage of the sad situation Woke created. Should have seen he was potentially a sell-out when he said he could stop the Ukraine war in one day.
This is beyond aggravating. Trump had better wise up regarding these visas. These certainly take jobs from Americans. Our students study STEM fields and jobs are given to immigrants willing to work for less. This is why the billionaire class loves them.
I’ve seen how this works close up. ‘Work for less’ is only part of it–not even a factor often. The thing is, supplying these migrants is now an industry, complete with agents who have an always growing relationship with the personnel departments (often as not at infiltrated by migrants). The poor Us clod doesn’t have anybody there pushing for him and is automatically overlooked.
The good news is that Musk is such a massive ego-maniac, he won’t and has already lost control of himself. Trump can’t stand dissenters so at some point the two will blow up and Musk will be out the door. After that we can expect Musk to censor Trump on X yet again and start befriending all his silicon valley lefty buddies.
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