Elon Musk Is Right About H-1Bs

Elon Musk recently posted on X that “[t]he reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of [the] H1B” temporary visa program for workers in specialty occupations. After his post generated significant controversy, Musk followed-up by stating that the H-1B program’s negative impact on American workers can be “[e]asily 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”. Read Full Article »