ICYMI: Trump Responds After Elon Musk Escalates His Feud With MAGA Loyalists Over H-1B Visas; Trump Supports Immigration Visas Backed by Musk: ‘I have many H-1B visas on my properties’

Trump responds after Elon Musk escalates his feud with MAGA loyalists over H-1B visas:

President-elect Donald Trump’s backers in Silicon Valley are at odds with his MAGA loyalists over a key issue: immigration.

In recent days, Elon Musk and others in the tech sector have voiced support for H-1B visas, which allow US companies to hire highly skilled workers from overseas. Their comments angered Trump backers who favor stricter immigration rules.

Musk’s latest response to the backlash came late Friday in an expletive-laden X post. He said an H-1B visa allowed him and others to build “SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong.”

“I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend,” he posted.

Trump appeared to side with Musk on Saturday, telling The New York Post that he has “always liked the visas.”

“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.

In 2020, Trump authorized a freeze on visas, including the H-1B, in what his administration said was an attempt to reserve jobs for Americans amid the economic hardships brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The debate over H-1Bs began after Trump offered Sriram Krishnan, a Chennai-born, Indian American investor, a role as a senior policy advisor for artificial intelligence.

Krishnan, who recently lived in London while leading an expansion of the venture capital firm A16z, moved to the United States after graduating from college in India and worked at several tech firms, including Microsoft, Twitter, and Meta.

Criticism has largely come from anonymous social media accounts — one X post asked if anyone had voted “for this Indian to run America,” prompting a defense from Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David Sacks.

Krishnan’s appointment has prompted a wider debate on the merits of H-1B visas. —>READ MORE HERE (or HERE)

Trump supports immigration visas backed by Musk: ‘I have many H-1B visas on my properties’:

President-elect Donald Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers, appearing to side with Elon Musk in the roiling intra-MAGA debate on the issue.

“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 that may not be easily available in the US labor force and must be expanded.

MAGA hardliners want Trump to follow through with his promise to promote US workers and impose tougher restrictions on immigration.

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.”

The flare-up happened after X user Steven Mackey jabbed the billionaire’s defense of the program by using the billionaire’s own words against him. —>READ MORE HERE

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