There was a lot of debate on X over the past week about H-1B visas and it caused a lot of turmoil on the right. Ultimately, Elon Musk acknowledged the abuses and that the program needed to be reformed. He said it should be made more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically.
Easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically.
I’ve been very clear that the program is broken and needs major reform.
— Kekius Maximus (@elonmusk) December 29, 2024
“Easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically,” Musk wrote on X late Saturday in response to a thread claiming H1-B visas were being used…
