Musk, Ramaswamy Defend Foreign Worker Visas Amid Social Media Backlash

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โ€˜If you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be,โ€™ Musk wrote.

After Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy made posts on the social platform X this week endorsing an expansion of the visa program for hiring foreign-born highly skilled workers, the two tech billionaires faced backlash from supporters of President-elect Donald Trump over how that program would operate within the new administrationโ€™s immigration agenda.

Musk and Ramaswamy, who are set to lead Trumpโ€™s new Department of Government Efficiency next year, celebrated companies using H-1B visas to hire workers, which is a program that allows employers to hire nonimmigrant foreign-born workers in specialty occupations, giving those workers access to a visa as a condition of their job position.

The two argued that tech companies, including Muskโ€™s, rely on foreign workers for operations, setting off a debate among Trumpโ€™s supporters on Muskโ€™s social media platform X. While the president-elect had restricted access to foreign worker visas in his first term and has criticized them in past statements, his 2024 campaign suggested an openness to granting some H-1B visas to foreign-born workers who graduate from a U.S.-based university.

Musk suggested in a Dec. 25 post on X that the United States needed to โ€œdoubleโ€ its number of engineers working as the country is short of โ€œsuper talented engineersโ€ with the number of โ€œsuper motivatedโ€ people in the country being far too low.

โ€œThink of this like a pro sports team: 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,โ€ Musk wrote, adding that his companies would โ€œprefer to hire Americans … as that is MUCH easier than going through the incredibly painful and slow work visa processโ€ in another post the same day.

โ€œI am referring to bringing in via legal immigration the top ~0.1% of engineering talent as being essential for America to keep winning,โ€ Musk said in a post on Thursday. โ€œThinking 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.โ€

Byย Jacob Burg

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