Backlash Against H-1B Visas In US, Elon Musk Forced To Call For Higher Salaries

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has been forced to call for “major reforms” to the “broken” H-1B visa system after a massive blowback by Donald Trump’s MAGA loyalists in the US. Just days ago he was vociferously defending the programme and pledging to “go to war” over it. Responding to a thread on X which makes the case that the H-1B scheme isn’t fulfilling its goal of bringing elite talent to the United States, Musk said, “I’ve been very clear that the program is broken and needs major reform.” The entrepreneur, who emigrated from South Africa to the US on an H-1B visa, proposed raising the minimum salary for visa holders and introducing an annual cost for maintaining the visa. Such measures, he argued, would make it “materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically.”