Silicon Valley finds itself at the center of a raging political debate that could dramatically impact its Workforce it is pitting some of the biggest names in Tech who happen to be supporters of Donald Trump against the president-elect’s base.
SEO News looks at the Clash over work visas an online debate between big Tech and politics that continues into the weekend at the center of the issue is the H1B Visa program it’s a gateway for skilled workers from around the world who specialize in areas that include mathematics technology engineering and science 65,000 visas are issued each year.
With an additional 20,000 given to those who have master’s degrees or higher Amed bona is an engineering professor at San Jose State this thing about having this limit of 65,000. I mean we could miss someone Trump’s new AI adviser has advocated for the US to remove country-specific caps on H1B visas tech industry leaders and Trump advisers Vivic Ramaswami and Elon Musk both made long posts on how their businesses rely on H1B workers Ramaswami pointed to the American culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad Maga supporter Laura Loomer tweeted the H1B program takes away jobs from American stem students in a post musk said there is a dire shortage of extremely talented and motivated engineers in America look at musk himself he is one of the products of the h-1bs.
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I mean we don’t have Alen Musk you agree or disagree with him we’re not going to have Tesla we’re not going to have SpaceX uh star Link ABC 7 News Insider Phil Mattier weighed in on Musk’s support for the Visa program he’s not only in favor of these high-tech visas he’s also talking about expanding them to where if someone completes from outside the country comes to America and completes a four-year College program.
They should automatically get a green card that will bring a competitive Workforce into America that will be competing with native-born Americans for jobs on Friday Marjorie Taylor made the case young people are spending all their time trade education so what will happen to H1B visas during Trump’s second term that’s unclear Trump restricted the program in 2020 during his first Administration in San Jose Lauren Martinez SEO News.
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