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President-elect Donald Trump<\/strong> enthusiastically supported the extremely coveted H-1B<\/a> visa program on Saturday, which permits overseas staff in \u201cspecialty occupations\u201d into the United States. Whether or not these visas ought to be sustained and elevated has precipitated MAGA infighting as billionaire Elon Musk<\/strong> backs this system to the dismay of hardline anti-immigration Trump supporters.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That\u2019s why we have them,\u201d Trump advised the New York Post<\/em><\/a>\u2019s Jon Levine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The H-1B visa program permits employers to rent overseas staff \u201cin specialty occupations or as fashion models.\u201d Specialty occupations require the visa applicant to have at the very least a bachelor\u2019s diploma or its equal, per the Department of Labor<\/a>. This kind of visa is commonly used for staff in fields similar to math, engineering, and know-how\u2014areas uniquely helpful to CEOs like Musk, who got here to the US as a world scholar and says<\/a> he labored<\/a> utilizing an H-1B visa.<\/p>\n According to reporting<\/a> from Forbes based mostly on H-1B information, Tesla, which Musk runs, \u201cwas among the leading employers of new foreign-born scientists and engineers in [fiscal year] 2024.\u201d In FY 2024, Tesla had 742 H-1B petitions accepted for preliminary employment, greater than double their 2023 quantity: 328.<\/p>\n Back when he was working for president for the primary time, in 2016, Trump took a special stance on the H-1B program, calling it \u201cvery bad for workers\u201d and saying that \u201cwe should end it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t have it. Very very bad for workers. And second of all, I think it\u2019s very important to say\u2014well, I\u2019m a businessman and I have to do what I have to do, and it\u2019s sitting there waiting for you\u2014but it\u2019s very bad,\u201d Trump stated<\/a> on the time. \u201cIt\u2019s very bad for business, in terms of, it\u2019s very bad for our workers. It\u2019s unfair for our workers. And we should end it.\u201d<\/p>\n In this speech and elsewhere, together with in his latest interview with the Post<\/em>, Trump has repeatedly claimed that he typically makes use of H-1B visas at his properties. Yet, based on reporting<\/a> from the New York Times<\/em>\u2019s Ken Bensinger<\/strong>, \u201cTrump appears to have only sparingly used the H-1B visa program,\u201d and, as a substitute, \u201che has been a frequent and longtime user of the similarly named, but starkly different, H-2B visa program,\u201d which is for staff like gardeners and housekeepers, \u201cas well as the H-2A program, which is for agricultural workers.\u201d Over the previous 20 years, based on federal information, Trump\u2019s firms have acquired approval to make use of over 1,000 staff by way of these two H-2 applications.<\/p>\n And, a CNN evaluate<\/a> of presidency labor information discovered that Trump\u2019s companies sought to rent extra overseas visitor staff this 12 months than another 12 months on file and gained approval to make use of 209 \u2014together with cooks, housekeepers, servers, and desk clerks.<\/p>\n Musk, the richest individual<\/a> on this planet, spent<\/a> over 1 \/ 4 of a billion {dollars} on pro-Trump political motion committees in the course of the closing months of the 2024 presidential election. This week, he\u2019s been feuding with different high-profile MAGA defends in regards to the visa program\u2014spewing insults to naysayers on his social media web site X, previously Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] President-elect Donald Trump enthusiastically supported the extremely coveted H-1B visa program on Saturday, which permits overseas staff in \u201cspecialty occupations\u201d into the United States. Whether or not these visas ought to be sustained and elevated has precipitated MAGA infighting as billionaire Elon Musk backs this system to the dismay of hardline anti-immigration Trump supporters. 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