Summary
A rift has emerged within Donald Trump’s MAGA base over immigration, sparked by his appointment of Indian-born entrepreneur Sriram Krishnan as AI adviser.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy defended hiring high-skilled foreign workers, emphasizing the need for global talent in tech, while far-right figures like Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz criticized the move as anti-MAGA.
The debate reflects deeper divisions between Trump’s traditional anti-immigration stance and his recent openness to legal immigration for skilled graduates, signaling potential conflicts within his incoming administration.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy defended hiring high-skilled foreign workers, emphasizing the need for global talent in tech, while far-right figures like Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz criticized the move
I’m critical of it too, but not for the same reason as Loomer and Gaetz. My problem with it isn’t that it hurts America, but that helps America TOO much. If all of the best and brightest are coming to the US, they’re leaving their nations of origin, depleting the talent pool of those nations. It leaves those nations disadvantaged relative to the US, and it’s not fair for the US to have that advantage, because we are already the world’s dominant economic superpower. We can’t keep taking resources (in this case labor and intellectual resources) from poorer nations, to help generate profit for our wealthy elite.
There’s no feud. This is just the general type of cognitive dissonance you get when you combine relentless hateful messaging with the fact that the moneyed class don’t believe any of it. Cheap labor is obviously more important, so the propaganda people will keep up the hate/fear, while perhaps there won’t be quite as many round-ups as we thought.
Edit: Feel the need to add I think these headlines depicting “fueds” are obnoxiously disingenuous.
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