MAGA civil war erupts between Musk, critics over H-1B visas

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : A wave of Trump supporters in the tech industry, meanwhile, voiced support for bringing in high-skilled foreign workers.
56% : Musk, who poured at least $250 million into the race to boost Trump, has become a key figure in the president-elect's inner circle, beyond his formal position as DOGE co-chair.
55% : "Ramaswamy, co-chair of Trump's new "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) alongside Musk, previously called to "gut" the H-1B visa program during his own presidential campaign.
54% : While Silicon Valley has long been considered a liberal bastion, divisions emerged within the industry earlier this year as more tech executives, including former Democratic donors, backed Trump.
49% : Musk, who has become a close ally of Trump since the election, argued in a post on his social platform X that Silicon Valley often turns to immigrants because there are too few U.S.-born engineers.
45% : His first term administration aimed to raise wage requirements for H-1B visas, but the rule was ultimately blocked.
23% : The debate was sparked by Trump on Sunday when he announced he was appointing Sriram Krishnan to be a White House policy adviser on artificial intelligence.
22% : But while Trump has promised to shut down illegal immigration at the southern border and start a mass deportation effort, the latest debate concerns legal immigrants -- exposing a larger, sometimes racist, anti-immigrant sentiment on the right.
21% : "Trump himself, meanwhile, has been quiet on the issue as the debate has raged on X, posting on Friday instead about the death of attorney David Rivkin and the engagement of Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt.
21% : But Trump in 2016 had criticized the H-1B program, saying it imported foreign workers "for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay."
14% : Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who Trump tapped to serve as his attorney general before bowing out due to an ethics scandal, argued that conservatives did not ask tech executives to get involved in immigration policy.

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