WEST PALM BEACH, Florida: Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, vowed to go to “battle” to defend the H-1B visa program for overseas tech staff late on Friday amid a dispute between President-elect Donald Trump’s longtime supporters and his most lately acquired backers from the tech trade.
In a put up on social media platform X, Musk mentioned “The rationale I am in America together with so many crucial individuals who constructed SpaceX, Tesla and a whole lot of different corporations that made America robust is due to H1B.”
“I’ll go to battle on this problem the likes of which you can not probably comprehend,” he added.
Musk, a naturalised US citizen born in South Africa, has held an H-1B visa, and his electrical automotive firm Tesla obtained 724 of the visas this 12 months. H-1B visas are sometimes for three-year durations, although holders can lengthen them or apply for inexperienced playing cards.
