Intra-MAGA H-1B visa rift misses broader point about immigration and workforce

Published January 3, 2025 5:45am ET



Those of us with friends and families spent the end of 2024 celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, and the Advent of the New Year. The internet’s most miserable misanthropes closed out the holiday season raging against the nation’s H-1B visa program.

They’re mad about the program, which aims to bring foreign workers to the U.S. for skilled jobs when Americans can’t fill them, in general. It implicitly contradicts plans by President-elect Donald Trump to limit immigration.

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