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Trump sides with Elon Musk in legal dispute over work visas

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Trump sides with Elon Musk in legal dispute over work visas

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump weighed in Saturday on a bitter debate that has divided his traditional supporters and tech stalwarts like Elon Musk, saying he supports one special visa program This helps highly qualified workers enter the country.
“I’ve always liked the (H1-B) visas, I’ve always been for the visas, that’s why we have them” at Trump-owned facilities, Trump he told the New York Post in his first public comments on the matter since it flared up this week.
An angry back and forth, mostly between Silicon Valleys musk and traditional anti-immigrant Trump supporters have erupted violently, with Musk even vowing to “go to war” over the issue.
Trump’s persistent calls for a drastic curb on immigration were crucial to his November election victory against the US president Joe Biden. He has vowed to deport all undocumented immigrants and restrict legal immigration.

But tech entrepreneurs like Tesla’s Musk — as well as Vivek Ramaswamy, who is slated to co-chair a government cost-cutting panel with Musk under Trump — say the United States is producing too few high-quality graduates, and they are pushing hard for the H1-B program .

Vivek Ramaswamy (right) and Trump at a campaign event. Photo: AFP
Vivek Ramaswamy (right) and Trump at a campaign event. Photo: AFP
Musk, who emigrated himself South Africa on an H1-B, posted on its

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