Immigration Tests Elon’s Commitment To Free Speech
A clash between President-elect Donald Trump’s coalition factions has tested X owner Elon Musk’s commitment to online free speech.
The fight began around Christmas and focused on H1-B visas. The tech sector is widely reported to be one of the largest users of the visa program, and critics frequently say the program is abused to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor who can not leave the company that sponsors their visas.
More than 700 H-1B visas went to Musk’s electric car company, Tesla, in 2023, Newsweek reports. The outlet also reported that Musk claims to have previously held an H-1B visa and that a score of employees at his space exploration company, SpaceX, have been sponsored by the company for such a visa.
Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are close advisors to the incoming President and have been tapped to lead the burgeoning Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Both the tech sector giants took to social media to say that the country needed more H-1B workers.
No, we need more like double that number yesterday!
The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low.
Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 25, 2024
“If you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be. That enables the whole TEAM to win,” Musk posted on X on December 26.
“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 in another post. “Thinking of America as a pro sports team that has been winning for a long time and wants to keep winning is the right mental construct.”
Ramaswamy made similar points on Musk’s platform.
“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,” Ramaswamy concurred in a long microblog post. “A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.”
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NO AMERICANS HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED SUB STANDARD IN THE FIELDS OR FLOODED WITH LEFTIST AGENDAS OVER TRUE KNOWLEDGE WHILE IN COLLEGE or tech we have given away for free. See more below *********
He added, “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence” and cited portrayals of smart students in TV sitcoms such as “Boy Meets World,” “Saved By The Bell,” and “Family Matters” to buttress his point. This, he argued, justified bringing in more H-1B workers.
Some viewed these arguments as beyond the tech moguls’ portfolio.
“We welcomed the tech bros when they came running our way to avoid the 3rd grade teacher picking their kid’s gender – and the obvious Biden/Harris economic decline,” Gaetz wrote in a social media post that delivered a veiled dig at Musk, whose son now claims to be a girl. “We did not ask them to engineer an immigration policy.”
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Long-time enemies of Ramaswamy, such as Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, hit back.
“There is nothing wrong with American workers or American culture. All you have to do is look at the border and see how many want what we have. We should be investing and prioritizing in Americans, not foreign workers,” Haley claimed. ***********
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h/t Coastie Patriot
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