The Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher argued that Republicans are “missing the forest for the trees” with their resistance to H-1B visas to legal immigrants, contending that the visas going out to these immigrants are only a small fraction of the illegal immigrants who enter the country.
Department of Government Efficiency co-heads Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s support for H-1B visas has sparked debate and disagreement among Republicans, prompting President-elect Donald Trump to weigh in and back the two billionaires. In sharing her take on the matter, Doescher pointed to how Musk, an immigrant from South Africa, has created over 120,000 jobs through Tesla alone, and that the annual 85,000 legal immigrants who receive H-1B visas are a “net benefit” for the nation.
