Elon Musk, through D.O.G.E., plans to get Silicon Valley back on track and fix the immigration crisis
By Florence Muchai
Updated: December 27 2024 3:48 PM UTC
Contents
1. From anti-immigrant to pro-immigrant? Only for Silicon Valley
2. Silicon Valley’s national security shift under Trump’s administration
In this post:
Elon Musk claims to be pro-immigration for skilled foreigners for the sake of Silicon Valley.
Native Americans’ employment is threatened by Musk’s anti-immigrant sentiment.
Silicon Valley’s rising securitization could introduce new, increasingly dangerous technology.
Despite the Trump administration’s intention to restrict immigration, Elon Musk has a better idea. Killing two birds with one stone, he contended that the immigration of only highly qualified foreign workers to the US could save Silicon Valley.
Musk wrote on his social platform X, “The number of people who are super talented engineers and super motivated in the USA is far too low.”
Many people, especially native Americans, were not happy with his statement. To that end, he further explained, “Of course, my companies and I would prefer to hire Americans, and we do, as that is much easier than going through the incredibly painful and slow work visa process […] however, there is a dire shortage of extremely talented and motivated engineers in America.”
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.) partner Vivek Ramaswamy similarly argued there are too few competitive U.S.-born engineering candidates, suggesting it’s a cultural issue.
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/musk-doge-gets-silicon-valley-via-immigrants/
