For the past few days, certain highly visible elements of the MAGA coalition have been sparring with one another. Specifically, X users have been privy to an extensive immigration policy flame war between two competing MAGA coalition camps: the pro-immigration “tech bros” on the one hand, and the nationalist-populist immigration restrictionists on the other hand.
The debate has focused, above all, on the thorny question of so-called high-skill immigration. A Politico headline summarized the dispute as “Elon Musk vs. Stephen Miller.”
The “tech bros,” led by Musk and his incoming Department of Government Efficiency cochair Vivek Ramaswamy, have been arguing that we must amend America’s already generous and already byzantine immigration laws to permit more “high-skill” foreigners to come work here on H-1B and O-1 visas.
This, we are reliably informed,…
