Published December 27, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.
Foreign. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are both to be part of the Trump administration, are causing a stir by declaring after the presidential election that they want to see a sharp increase in immigration of workers from the third world. At the same time, Musk accuses white men of being “stupid”.
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are to lead Donald Trump's “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE).
But the duo has now found itself in a storm among Trump supporters who have difficulty understanding how their liberal view of immigration rhymes with the message “America first”. Both Musk and Ramaswamy (who is himself Indian) have previously criticized so-called illegal immigration, which in Sweden is called asylum immigration. But now the duo announce that the tech companies they personally have financial interests in are in urgent need of extensive labor from the third world. Elon Musk complains on his platform X that there are “far” too few “motivated and talented” developers in the US to meet the needs of tech companies.”If you want your team to win the championship, you have to recruit top players regardless of where they are,” he writes.
The statement quickly received backlash from the MAGA movement, and many are asking why the United States, with 330 million inhabitants, cannot handle this supply of skills on its own. One of the critics is conservative activist and Trump loyalist Laura Loomer, who accuses Musk of not being loyal enough to Trump's “America first” policy.
“You bought into Maga five minutes ago,” Loomer writes on X, accusing Musk of “infiltrating” Trump's movement in order to gain financial benefits for himself and his “Big Tech buddies.” “We're just stupid.” When another user complains about “white men no longer getting hired” in today's US, Elon Musk responds: “We're just stupid.” Vivek Ramaswamy also comes under fire after blaming the tech industry's alleged reliance on foreign labor on “American culture.”According to Ramaswamy, the problem is not a lack of IQ in Americans, but rather “a culture that celebrates prom queens (award for the most beautiful and popular girl among American high school students, FT's note)” and “sports freaks” instead of top students and chess masters, writes the Indian on X.
The outburst has caused a split within the MAGA movement, and some conservative figures like Mike Cernovich are asking why previous generations of Americans were able to build world-leading industries without relying on mass immigration from the Third World.
Elon Musk, who himself is an immigrant from South Africa, has been personally accused of having worked illegally in the United States during his early years as an entrepreneur.
The issue of so-called H1B visas and IT companies' dependence on foreign labor is a sensitive point in Trump-friendly circles, where immigration is a central political issue.
Donald Trump, after receiving large donations from Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley billionaires, began to speak out favorably during the election campaign about greatly increasing labor immigration from the Third World. Among other things, he has said that he wants to grant automatic permanent residency to all students who graduate from an American university. For this group of donors, the possibility of hiring cheap labor from India in particular is a central issue.
Trump's promise of “mass deportations” of illegal immigrants seems to be about to run out of steam – before he even took office as president.
Right-winger Nick Fuentes – who warned before the presidential election that exactly this would happen – is now picking on voters who chose to “trust the plan” and vote for Trump and support Musk despite all the warning signs.
To the “Trust the Plan” Trump voters, I have some bad news for you… pic.twitter.com/zDK9TybuJr
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) December 24, 2024
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