“Immigration hawks believe they won an important first battle in their skirmish with billionaire Elon Musk over specialty foreign worker visas. But they remain privately worried about their ability to retain the upper hand in the broader war within the GOP given the rising influence of tech moguls as Donald Trump returns to the White House,” Politico reports.
“The bitter clash that spilled out in public over the holidays between MAGA activists who favor tighter restrictions on a program designed to attract high-skilled immigrant workers and corporate leaders who rely on their labor ended with Musk conceding in a post on X that the H-1B visa program he previously extolled ‘is broken and needs major reform.’”
