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US President-elect Donald Trump announced that he believes in the “H-1B” visa, dismissing reports of opposition from qualified professionals. “It’s a wonderful program,” he told the New York Post in a phone interview on Saturday. In his inimitable style he said, “I’ve always liked visas, I’ve always been in favor of visas. That’s why we have them.”
“I have several H-1B visas on my properties. I have been a believer in H-1B. I have used it several times,” he told the newspaper, part of Rupert Murdoch-controlled News Corp. Trump has supported reform of the immigration system so that it can be tailored to merit. A points system like Canada or Australia could be adopted which gives importance to educational and employment qualifications. He said he wants foreign students graduating from American universities to get green cards with their diplomas.
He said during his campaign this year, “What I want to do, and what I will do, is that you graduate from college, I think you have to have that as part of your diploma to be able to stay in this country.” Should automatically get a green card.” The differences between Trump on H-1B visas and immigration of highly qualified individuals emerged when he appointed Sriram Krishnan, an Indian immigrant, as his AI advisor.
Laura Loomer was the first to raise her voice in protest. Who is considered one of Trump’s loyalists. He posted on Musk’s ex, “Very upset to see the appointment of Sriram Krishnan.” Laura claimed that Krishnan wants to remove all restrictions on the number of green cards. David Sachs, whom Trump has named crypto and AI czar and who will be Krishnan’s boss, told X that he had only suggested removing the limit on the number of green cards that can be granted to individual countries, While maintaining the overall limit so that green cards can be distributed to those who have very high backlogs.
When personal attacks and false allegations were made against Krishnan, Sacks again came to his defense and wrote on X that “the lies simply changed, including some attacks on him.” Musk took a personal approach and posted on Instagram, “I stand with so many important people in America who built SpaceX, Tesla, and hundreds of other companies who made America stronger, the reason is H-1B.” Warned that America will “lose” without attracting the world’s best talent.
“There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent. This is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley,” he wrote on X. “If you force the world’s best talent to play for the other side, America will lose,” he wrote, and challenged critics by asking whether they wanted to see America win or lose. are the largest recipients of visas, receiving 72.3 percent last year.
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