Washington: In a heated argument on Saturday, President-elect Donald Trump sided with billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk and said he supported the H-1B visa program, which permits highly educated foreign workers to enter the country.
In his first public remarks on the issue since it erupted this week, the president-elect told the New York Post, “I’ve always liked the (H1-B) visas, I have always been in favor of the visas, that’s why we have them” at Trump-owned sites.
Musk of Silicon Valley and conventional anti-immigration Trump supporters have been engaged in a heated back and forth, with Musk even threatening to “go to war” over the matter.
Trump’s electoral triumph was largely attributed to his unwavering demands for drastic immigration restrictions.
