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Elon Musk softens stand on H-1B visas
The New Indian Express
|January 01, 2025
AFTER vowing to "go to war" to defend the H-1B visa programme, tech billionaire Elon Musk has softened his stand on the issue by calling for reforms in the "broken" system used to bring skilled foreign workers to the US.
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Musk, along with Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, has been tapped by Trump to lead his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Last week, Musk argued that foreign workers were needed for tech companies like Musk's SpaceX and Tesla. "The reason I'm in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that ma
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