vivek and elon both did complete 180's re: visas :rofl:
conservative twitter is fucking PISSED dude
Did they, though? Iirc, their anti-immigration rhetoric during the campaign was mostly focused on the illegals coming across the southern border, who are almost exclusively low qualification. Silicon Valley has no use for those.
At the end of the day, I wouldn't give too much weight to these squabbles. Both sides have a point: it is true that the US benefits from taking in brilliant minds who are among the best the world has to offer in their field. And it's also true that for the past decades, H-1B visas have been abused to undermine the wages of highly qualified Americans, or to even replace them entirely.
The compromise is fairly obvious: keep the H-1B category, but tighten the screws with regard to the annual quotas, the wage requirements and the necessary evidence the employer has to provide that he can't find domestic workers for the job. This way, it can be ensured that employers can draw from highly qualified foreign applicants in the fields and positions where there is a genuine shortage, but that they can't use H-1B visas as a generic wage-suppression tool.
Vivek did do a complete rug pull and the proof is here:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/16/ramaswamy-h1b-visa-gop-visa-00116383Thankfully, Trump is in charge. He hasn't commented on this, but Trump has been a stalwart champion against dysgenic foreigners coming here on work visas.
I'm not surprised, honestly. Vivek is an Indian and a baal worshipper. Indians are an extremely tribal people who openly discriminate against those outside their tribe, and they see nothing wrong with it. Here in Canada we are great model for what happens when you open the floodgates to the Indian hordes with legal "skilled" immigration. Its an unmitigated disaster. They take up ALL the low skilled minimum wage jobs and the marginally skilled jobs such as delivery driving. Then, they form ethnic enclaves, take over entire apartment buildings & discriminate against everyone who isn't their own, if they get a management position somewhere they only hire Indians, etc. Under NO circumstances can you let these people in.
Elon and Vivek both want hordes of people who will work for pennies on the dollar and 80 hour work weeks with deportation threats looming over their heads if they refuse. That's what this is about, and we see right through it.
Trump is very wise to have rejected Vivek for any cabinet or serious positions. Him and Elon are volunteer advisers for getting rid of government waste, that is all. I imagine Trump is absolutely furious right now with them stepping out of line on immigration. They need to know their place and stick to cutting government bloat, nothing else. Trump made it clear to RFK Jr. for example to focus on health, nothing else. You don't see him airing any opinions on immigration.
To Black's point about having a system for showing they need foreign workers, that doesn't work. We have that in Canada, it doesn't help the problem. Another point is that the true problem is chain migration. 1000 visa holders means 100000 more immigrants via chain migration.
This post was edited by El1te on Dec 26 2024 11:28pm