President-elect Donald Trump has given his support to the H-1B visa program, supported by Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk to much controversy.
MAGA world has been in a cold civil war this past week after Musk and his fellow Department of Government Efficiency head, Vivek Ramaswamy, both spoke of their support for the program.
I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” Trump said to The New York Post about the program that allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialty jobs.
“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 added.
The controversy started when Musk touted the program in response to criticism from someone on X.
“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,” he said.
“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 said, using a line from the comedy movie “Tropic Thunder.”
Ramaswamy created more controversy when he supported the idea and also critiqued American culture.
Ramaswamy also said that tech companies often hire “foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ‘native’ Americans” not because of an “innate American IQ deficit,” but because of America’s culture.
“Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers,” he said.
