Tech industrialist Elon Musk was defending the H-1B visa just a few days ago and now on Sunday he said that the system which gave the opportunity to foreign youth to work in the US is now broken and there is a need to fix it. There is a need to work in the direction. Elon Musk and Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy recently clashed with supporters of newly elected US President Donald Trump on the issue of immigration.

Musk and Ramaswamy will be part of Trump’s team in the future and both were supporting the H-1B visa program. Elon Musk himself had migrated from South Africa to America with the help of H-1B visa. “It is very clear that the program is ‘broken’ and needs major reforms,” ​​he said in a post on Twitter.

He was responding to a user who said the US should become a destination for “the world’s most elite talent”, but the H-1B program “is not the way to do it”. Musk said this could be easily “fixed” by raising the minimum wage and adding an annual cost to maintain H-1B visas, which would “make it more expensive to hire foreigners.”

Easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically.

I’ve been very clear that the program is broken and needs major reform.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2024

Last week, Elon Musk had said that it is necessary to bring elite engineering talent from abroad so that America can continue to win.

Why is there a debate on H-1B visa?

Differences over H-1B visas and immigration of highly qualified individuals emerged when he appointed Sriram Krishnan, an Indian immigrant, as his AI advisor. The first attack was made by Laura Loomer, 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.

Let us tell you that Laura and other people of the right wing had accused Elon Musk and Ramaswamy of showing Americans as weak. In a viral post on Twitter, Krishnan was accused of being the “first Indian” operative aimed at replacing American workers. Loomer said, “The divorce between President Trump and Big Tech is waiting to happen.” To this Musk replied that “he is ready to go to war for this dispute”.