In my opinion, you are a traitor to the Make America Great Again movement. It is at this juncture of history that we are more organized than ever and you seek the first opportunity to pour sewage on movement.Musk Is Trator Trash on H1B Issue.
Right-wingers turn on Elon Musk over his latest immigration stance
‘The mask is off.’
Katherine Huggins
Posted on December 26 2024 11:40 am CST
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Billionaire Elon Musk is coming under fire from some right-wingers online over comments he made in support of H-1B visas, non-immigrant visas that allow employers to hire highly skilled foreign workers.
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This visa program was established in 1991. Congress sets annual limits on the number of visas that will be issued. It’s currently set at 65,000.
Companies including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM are among those that employ thousands of foreign workers with H-1B visas.
Musk’s Tesla was one of the leading employers for foreign-born engineers and scientists in FY 2024, receiving 742 approved H-1B petitions—up from 328 in FY 2023 and 337 in FY 2022, according to Forbes.
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Musk, who was born in South Africa, received an H-1B visa.
So while it might not be surprising that Musk is a fan of the visa program, his views diverge from many right-wingers, prompting online drama.
“The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low,” Musk wrote on Wednesday. “Think 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.”
Pressed by one commenter about denying “real Americans that opportunity by bringing foreigners here,” Musk countered that the user’s “understanding of the situation is upside-down and backwards.”
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“OF COURSE my companies and I would prefer to hire Americans and we DO, as that is MUCH easier than going through the incredibly painful and slow work visa process,” Musk said. “HOWEVER, there is a dire shortage of extremely talented and motivated engineers in America.”
“This is not about handing out opportunities from some magical hat. You don’t get it,” he continued. “This is blindingly obvious when looking at NBA teams, as the physical differences are so obvious to see. However, the MENTAL differences between humans are FAR bigger than the physical differences!!”
Musk’s comments in support of hiring foreign workers quickly sparked backlash from conservatives. Much of the commentary included presumptions about the race of the foreign workers to which Musk referred.
“We don’t want or need to turn this country into India,” reads one viral response to Musk’s post.
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“America is not your sports team. It’s my home,” countered someone else.
“I used to have some faith in Elon, but after this post I’m done. The mask is off,” slammed one right-wing account. “Elon supports erasing the cultural and ethnic identity of America to help grow his bank account. He’s parasitic and destructive.”
“So why not try to get people from Europe?” replied another account. “Engineers here in northern Europe earn HALF of what US engineers do, yet you keep importing Indians instead.”
The discourse around H-1B visas had been brewing online since entrepreneur Sriram Krishnan was picked to serve as a senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence in the incoming Trump administration, prompting a wave of racist backlash.
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“Did any of yall vote for this Indian to run America?” swiped one critic on Tuesday.
Far-right influencer Laura Loomer called the appointment “deeply disturbing,” pointing to a post from Krishnan calling for country-based immigration caps to be gone.
In another post responding to Musk agreeing with Krishnan, Loomer blasted, “How does it make sense to keep importing infinite foreign wage slaves who will further plummet the pay for STEM jobs in the US?”
Right-wingers turn on Elon Musk over his latest immigration stance
'The mask is off.'www.dailydot.com
your opinion is fucked, because make America great is about protecting Americans from globalist stupidity.In my opinion, you are a traitor to the Make America Great Again movement. It is at this juncture of history that we are more organized than ever and you seek the first opportunity to pour sewage on movement.
I expect you now to become unhinged in your response.
Musk is talking about the reform of the H1b visas in order to put an end to it's abuses. That includes safeguards for available US workers.your opinion is fucked, because make America great is about protecting Americans from globalist stupidity.
you h1b advocates are traitors to that, and that;s what maga actually means.
we don't just like red hats, dildo-hammer.
Whoever drives this avatar very well may be a Regime agent, on a mission to make MAGA look bad.Musk is talking about the reform of the H1b visas in order to put an end to it's abuses. That includes safeguards for available US workers.
If there is TRULY a lack of qualified US workers for high tech jobs, it would put the US at a great disadvantage in global competition in high tech development and innovation.
I hear NOBODY talking about efforts to encourage and develop OUR young people for these jobs. This effort needs to come from private enterprise. There is an opportunity to write this into the reforms.
But in this thread, I only see you tearing down MAGA, in your fake self righteousness.
MAGA is fake if it sells out highly skilled Americans.Whoever drives this avatar very well may be a Regime agent, on a mission to make MAGA look bad.
bret weinstein is a raging fucktard."As cynical as I get I keep finding out that I have not been cynical enough"
Bret
Translation: "brown people bad".it doesn't matter.
that;s the corporate cocksuck position. not the MAGA position.
oh poor tech companies.
The h1b visa is why I split from the globalists.
musked fucked up.
there is enought talent here.
they don't want Americans who know their rights. they want a beaten down slave population to replace free people.
they're still slavers after all these years.
Elon musks family owns a gem mine.
see. same as the border arguments.Translation: "brown people bad".
With the border, there is a legitimate reason for concern. What's the concern about highly skilled foreigners working in the US and would you care if it was pearly white Canadians coming here to work ?see. same as the border arguments.
there's nothing maga about you.
you're a 100% neocon fraud.
You can stop embarrassing yourself with your paranoid tantrum any time now. It's really making you look stupid. Not sure what broke your brain but you need to reel in your paranoia.it is sinister.
fuck you.
these are all the same open border arguments.
and they still suck, neocon never Trumper fuckhole.
More organized than everIn my opinion, you are a traitor to the Make America Great Again movement. It is at this juncture of history that we are more organized than ever and you seek the first opportunity to pour sewage on movement.
I expect you now to become unhinged in your response.
the essence of maga is rejecting globalist stupidity.You can stop embarrassing yourself with your paranoid tantrum any time now. It's really making you look stupid. Not sure what broke your brain but you need to reel in your paranoia.
Maybe a chart to keep the good guys and bad guys straight could help?
sounds like you hate foreign fuel?We don't need synthetic fuel plants. There is plenty of fuel in the United States.
fuck you in your huge hole.America needs to be made great again starting with the little ones. Unfortunately there is a huge hole in the work ethic of this country that has come to fruition with gen z growing up. And we all know who is responsible for this and it's not conservatives.
It can be turned around but for right now we have immediate needs that can't be filled domestically. That's the sad reality. Welcoming foreign workers today is not selling out MAGA.
Nothing has to last forever.
they're using it for entry level programming jobs and shutting Americans out completely.With the border, there is a legitimate reason for concern. What's the concern about highly skilled foreigners working in the US and would you care if it was pearly white Canadians coming here to work ?
Representation Is a Re-Presentation of Previous Political TyrannyNo hate.
Just raising awareness of trump and Vivek and elon's traitorous globalist shit-hell nature.
get over it, CCP.
then eat a bag of dicks.
Hindu DindusTranslation: "brown people bad".
There's some outsourcing of entry level jobs to cheap countries like India and the Philippines, but those people aren't coming here on visas because that would completely defeat the purpose of hiring them. My company has any entire team in the Philippines. An upper level employee makes $635 USD per month + a couple pounds of rice. You bring them here and how they're making a lot more.they're using it for entry level programming jobs and shutting Americans out completely.
there's nothing high skilled about it.
it just seems high skilled to you because you're a fucking idiot.