Why are US Republicans debating the future of H-1B high-skill work visas?
Al Jazeera
Visa dispute highlights divide between Trump supporters like tech tycoon Elon Musk and immigration hardliners.
A debate over what shape hardline immigration policies will take regarding high-skilled work visas has become the first major policy dispute among prominent supporters of United States President-elect Donald Trump – just weeks ahead of the Republican’s new presidential term.
On one side are members of Trump’s so-called “Make America Great Again”, or MAGA movement, who have called for a crackdown on the high-skilled H-1B visas as part of the president-elect’s wider pledge to tighten migration and immigration.
Trump’s campaign pledges particularly focused on the US-Mexico border, although he has floated other restrictions.
In the other camp are prominent Trump supporters – including tech billionaire Elon Musk – who have defended the visas as essential to US industrial and economic growth.
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