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,… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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.