Summary
Donald Trump voiced strong support for the H-1B visa program, calling it “great” and highlighting its use at his properties, despite his administration’s prior efforts to restrict it, which were blocked in court.
His comments come during a MAGA debate over the program, with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy supporting it as crucial for attracting global talent, while Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon argue that it harms American jobs.
Musk’s controversial online posts escalated tensions, sparking accusations of censorship against him by conservative critics.
Elon’s attitudes toward education are especially bizarre.
Last time the asshole was in charge he fucked up the H-1B program and a bunch of high skilled and high paid engineers were forced to move to Canada. Those high paid engineers benefited from living in a country with a higher standard of living where freedom actually means freedom, not just guns and hate speech, and they paid taxes on their high salaries in Canada. It was a win for the employees and a big win for Canada.
Despite his racist reasons for doing so, killing H1B is a good thing. It is abused by contracting companies for cheap labor while higher skilled local talent is not hired.
But yeah, the memory of this guy’s supporters and how easy he is to manipulate is non existant.
I feels like, with most policy things, it’s just under-regulated and easily abused. The tossing out of misused and underdeveloped policy and programs instead of fixing it is getting so fucking tiring. Have an imagination, it’ll do us all some good.
It is actually just a terrible system. H1B visas are tied to employment and specific positions so the recipients of them are denied labor bargaining power. Skill based immigration that isn’t employer tied is much more fair to both the immigrant and citizens around them.
So it’s less that H1B is bad because loopholes and exploits and more that it’s just a deeply flawed idea from the get-go.
It was designed to be exploited. If companies cannot actually find local talent (in coding, for example: LOL, not buying that for one minute, having seen way too much of this nonsense over the decades) then, by all means, we should be making permanent immigration options here much easier, expedited, etc…and the individual should not be tied to the company in any way whatsoever.
Oddly enough, this is not the situation these poor companies lobby the government for, though.
H1-B exists to solve an imaginary problem of skills shortages among US engineers and programmers. The reality in the vast percentage of cases is that employers want skills that Americans have, at wages that Americans refuse to accept. That essential part of the program cannot be reformed, since it’s based on a lie. The remaining very small percent of positions where a bona fide skills shortage exists could be reformed by breaking the tie between the sponsoring employer and the visa, allowing the H1-B holder to change jobs to one where they’re paid a market rate. That would at least eliminate the use of H1-B holders as scab labor.
Source: I was a hiring manager in the software industry who recruited dozens of H1-B holders, and know all the scams and evasions used to “prove” that no suitable local candidate could be found.
Despite his racist reasons for doing so, killing H1B is a good thing. It is abused by contracting companies for cheap labor while higher skilled local talent is not hired.
Could not agree more. We should be welcoming as much brainpower here as possible, but not under H-1B. It’s a disaster. Instead, encourage full citizenship, not indentured servants.
President Musk told him what he thinks.
Was gonna say, trump clearly got his orders from his boss
Even if he disagreed with musk… He’s the richest man alive? Of course Trump would side with him over homeless drunk Uncle?
Just in case he wants a new wife.
I’m sure old donvict looooves the idea of fucking over some of the same people he would have bullied as a child, while also exploiting foreigners. Win-win.
At his advanced age and appalling physical condition, the only thing that gets him off is betraying people. His sociopathy manifests itself largely through backstabbing.
