Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy advocate for increasing highly skilled worker visas, igniting controversy among supporters of President-elect Donald Trump who anticipate stricter immigration policies.
Social media posts by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy arguing in favor of expanding the visa program for highly skilled workers have sparked a debate among supporters of President-elect Donald Trump over how the program should fit into the incoming administration’s aggressive immigration agenda.
Musk and Ramaswamy, whom Trump has chosen to lead his Department of Government Efficiency, defended companies who use workers on H-1B visas, arguing that tech companies — including those owned by Musk — rely on foreign workers to operate. But their message has upset some of Trump’s most loyal defenders who expect his administration to restrict immigration and promote American labor. Trump limited access to foreign worker visas during his first term and has targeted the H-1B program in past remarks. But during the 2024 campaign, Trump signaled openness to granting some foreign-born workers legal status if they graduated from a US university. In a social media post on Wednesday, Musk said US tech companies need “double” the amount of engineers working in America today and compared the benefits of the program to a professional sports team recruiting the best talent from around the world. “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,” Musk wrote on X. “I am referring to bringing in via legal immigration the top ~0.1% of engineering talent as being essential for America to keep winning,” Musk wrote in another post on Thursday. “Thinking 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”, Musk concluded
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