WEST PALM BEACH, Florida: Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, vowed to go to “warfare” to defend the H-1B visa program for overseas tech staff late on Friday amid a dispute between President-elect Donald Trump’s longtime supporters and his most not too long ago acquired backers from the tech trade.
In a put up on social media platform X, Musk stated “The rationale I am in America together with so many essential individuals who constructed SpaceX, Tesla and a whole lot of different corporations that made America sturdy is due to H1B.”
“I’ll go to warfare on this subject the likes of which you can not probably comprehend,” he added.
Musk, a naturalised US citizen born in South Africa, has held an H-1B visa, and his electrical automobile firm Tesla obtained 724 of the visas this 12 months. H-1B visas are sometimes for three-year durations, although holders can lengthen them or apply for inexperienced playing cards.
