Tesla CEO Elon Musk is using the highly controversial H-1B visa to import foreign workers (mainly from India) to take white-collar jobs in the United States. New data reveals a growing vested interest in the federal government continuing the program.
Supporters of President-elect Donald Trump and other have been speaking out against the H-1B visa program in recent weeks. ”
“It's because of H1B that I'm in America with so many critical people who created SpaceX, Tesla, and hundreds of other companies that made America strong,” Musk wrote about X. . face. I'm going to go to war on this issue that you just can't understand. ”
Vivek Ramaswamy also took part in the debate, appearing to side with Musk in support of the H-1B visa program and criticizing American culture for “worshipping mediocrity.”
New data compiled by the National Foundation for National Policy Studies (NFAP) shows that Musk has a significant financial interest in continuing to operate the H-1B visa program as Tesla expands its foreign workforce in the United States. It shows.
NFAP report state:
Elon Musk's Tesla has shown a significant increase in H-1B approval applications, making it 16 on the list of most approved H-1B applications for initial employment in 2024, although it was not among the top 25 employers last year. rose to the top. Tesla approved 742 H1B applications for initial employment in 2024, more than double the total of 328 in 2023 and 337 in 2022. Tesla also had 1,025 H-1B petitions for continued employment (primarily extensions for existing employees) approved in 2024. [Emphasis added]
The report comes as a fired Tesla employee recently told Electrek.com that Musk replaced thousands of American workers with foreign H-1B visa workers.
“Current and former Tesla employees said many of the laid-off U.S. employees were replaced with foreign workers on H-1B visas,” Electrek.com reported. “These claims are supported by U.S. Department of Labor data showing that Tesla applied for more than 2,000 H-1B visas during the period it was furloughing American workers.”
Studies have repeatedly found that the H-1B visa program is often used as a huge labor savings plan for Fortune 500 companies.
For years, Breitbart News has documented the mistreatment of America's white-collar professionals as a result of the H-1B visa program. As Breitbart News highlights, Americans are often fired in the process and forced to train foreign replacements.
There are approximately 650,000 H-1B visas. foreign country American workers all the time.
the study, published In the September issue of the Journal of Business Ethics, we reviewed hacked wage data from Deloitte to compare the starting salaries of foreign H-1B visa workers to U.S. workers.
The results showed that Deloitte paid foreign workers on H-1B visas about 10 percent less than American workers in the same jobs.
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