Elon Musk beefs with MAGA over legal immigration

Tech titan Elon Musk — who has quickly become President-elect Donald Trump’s right-hand man — got into a fiery spat Thursday with MAGA allies over foreign worker visas, arguing along with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy that the program is key for American innovation.

The billionaire DOGE bosses lashed out the day after Christmas Day at some of Trump’s staunchest supporters and other immigration hawks for opposing the H-1B program, which lets highly skilled foreign workers enter the US for companies who sponsor them.

“I am referring to bringing in via legal immigration the top ~0.1% of engineering talent as being essential for America to keep winning,” Musk wrote on X, comparing the US to a sports team bringing in athletes to boost their game.

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[gluonone]

There are enough tech smart Americans graduating every year with Engineering degrees. More than enough talent here. But the companies want the visas as extra leverage to “motivate” their engineers…work them to the bone!

[silvereaper]

The visa and right to live in America is not accounted for and is essentially a subsidy to importing labor. Completely unfair to American workers.

[Fatbaldguy]

Maybe Elon should move his business to India and have their government fund his space x and quest to Mars.

[bigmikeisaman]

"Give him a living but never let him know anything about the family business."

How I feel about Ramaswamy

[jeff]

All praise be to the uneducated. The get what they elected and then start to figure out what they elected.

[bobthemethguy]

Elon: "American jobs should go to American workers... unless those jobs are in my companies"

[MegTelevised]

HB1 visas take away from American jobs. Plain and simple.

Educate the American workforce to compete!

[tarisukone]

i mean i rather have actual americans doing IT work and being over healthcare then foreign people...lets be honest its hard trying to understand them and its makes the job 10 times harder then what it needs to be...

[joem]

That's the line where conservatives separates from the bigots.

[saintsinningsword]

The issue isn't legal immigration it's outsourcing jobs to the lowest bidder. Instead of hiring immigrants he should be living and doing business out of the countries he wants to hire from, he has the money. I'm sure india is a much nicer place to live in.

[gregoryv]

Bottom line is.If you want to come to the country come legally. You have to be able to hold your own. Americans shouldn’t be fronting the bill all the time especially when you broke the law.

[cosmicfxx]

No one can agree on everything. I agree with Musk on DOGE, that's it

[roselladeguzman]

🤣🤣🤣 the leopards are eating each other’s faces

[lzffozf]

So fun watching these magas argue with each other, just wait until there’s no immigrants to pick the vegetables and Mexico won’t sell them to the us because of Trump, 😂

[fightinspirit]

I am both a m a g a and Elon musk supporter. On this issue I think Elan is on to something here. Most lawful immigration would likely vote republican. While unlawful immigration, largely dependent on government and outs and taxpayers support would likely vote democrat. Interesting isn't it?

[PlasmaExplosion]

Hahahahahahaha! I love the infighting. 🤣

[JayG]

He doesn’t speak that fast, it’s not him... Remember that we live in the age of AI deep fake capabilities!!

[Mustapha]

I can't say I have much of an issue with what Musk wants to do regarding H1B visas, but it should not even be considered until our borders are secure and the 15 million illegal immigrants here are deported or self-deport.

[uiiu]

Thanks for living up to what we thought you would be!

[silvabakx]

only the best & brightest immigrants please. too many domestic dummies already