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US President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday weighed in on a debate among his closest supporters over legal immigration.
Trump told The New York Post Saturday that he “always liked” H-1B visas and hired people under the program — the comments appeared to signal a departure from first-term attempts to restrict the program and more recent campaign promises to severely limit legal immigration and deport millions of undocumented workers.
The comments came after Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on Friday ignited the argument with prominent MAGA figures like Steve Bannon and several more moderate Republicans over the H-1B skilled worker visa, which is particularly popular in Silicon Valley. Musk himself has held an H-1B visa in the past and hundreds of Tesla employees obtained the visa this year alone, Reuters reported.
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Speaking to a conservative meeting in Arizona last week, Trump pushed back on criticism that he was under Musk’s influence, the BBC reported, telling attendees it was a “hoax.”
“All the different hoaxes,” Trump told the conference. “The new one is that President Trump has ceded the presidency to Elon Musk... He’s not gonna be president.”
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This story has been updated to make clear when Donald Trump spoke to a meeting of Arizona conservatives.