{"id":19007,"date":"2024-12-27T18:45:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19007"},"modified":"2024-12-27T20:26:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T20:26:10","slug":"trump-backers-including-elon-musk-clash-with-far-right-over-immigrant-workers-and-h-1b-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19007","title":{"rendered":"Trump Backers, Including Elon Musk, Clash With Far Right Over Immigrant Workers and H-1B Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A fierce dispute erupted in the president-elect\u2019s camp between immigration hard-liners and tech industry leaders including Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

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Weeks before President-elect Donald J. Trump is to take office, a major rift has emerged among his supporters over immigration and the place of foreign workers in the U.S. labor market.<\/p>\n

The debate hinges on how much tolerance, if any, the incoming administration should have for skilled immigrants brought into the country on work visas.<\/p>\n

The schism pits immigration hard-liners against many of the president-elect\u2019s most prominent backers from the technology industry \u2014 among them Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, who helped back Mr. Trump\u2019s election efforts with more than a quarter of a billion dollars<\/a>, and David Sacks, a venture capitalist picked to be czar for artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency policy.<\/p>\n

The tech industry has long relied on foreign skilled workers to help run its companies, a labor supply that critics say undercuts wages for American citizens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The dispute, which late Thursday exploded online into acrimony, finger-pointing and accusations of censorship, frames a policy quandary for Mr. Trump. The president-elect has in the past expressed a willingness to provide more work visas to skilled workers, but has also promised to close the border, deploy tariffs to create more jobs for American citizens and severely restrict immigration.<\/p>\n

Laura Loomer<\/a>, a far-right activist and fervent Trump loyalist, helped set off the altercation earlier this week by criticizing Mr. Trump\u2019s selection of Sriram Krishnan, an Indian American venture capitalist, to be an adviser on artificial intelligence policy. In a post, she said she was concerned that Mr. Krishnan, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in India, would have influence on the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policies, and mentioned \u201cthird-world invaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A fierce dispute erupted in the president-elect\u2019s camp between immigration hard-liners and tech industry leaders including Elon Musk.Weeks before President-elect Donald J. Trump is to take office, a major rift has emerged among his supporters over immigration and the place of foreign workers in the U.S. labor market.The debate hinges on how much tolerance, if any, the incoming administration should have for skilled immigrants brought into the country on work visas.The schism pits immigration hard-liners against many of the president-elect\u2019s most prominent backers from the technology industry \u2014 among them Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, who helped back Mr. Trump\u2019s election efforts with more than a quarter of a billion dollars, and David Sacks, a venture capitalist picked to be czar for artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency policy.The tech industry has long relied on foreign skilled workers to help run its companies, a labor supply that critics say undercuts wages for American citizens.The dispute, which late Thursday exploded online into acrimony, finger-pointing and accusations of censorship, frames a policy quandary for Mr. Trump. The president-elect has in the past expressed a willingness to provide more work visas to skilled workers, but has also promised to close the border, deploy tariffs to create more jobs for American citizens and severely restrict immigration.Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and fervent Trump loyalist, helped set off the altercation earlier this week by criticizing Mr. Trump\u2019s selection of Sriram Krishnan, an Indian American venture capitalist, to be an adviser on artificial intelligence policy. In a post, she said she was concerned that Mr. Krishnan, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in India, would have influence on the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policies, and mentioned \u201cthird-world invaders.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19009,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19010,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007\/revisions\/19010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}