Elon Musk reignites debate on H-1B visa programme, calls it 'broken' which needs to be reformed
Hindustan TimesWashington, After vowing to "go to war" to defend the H-1B visa programme, tech billionaire Elon Musk has reignited debates surrounding the programme used to bring skilled foreign workers to the US by labelling it "broken" and in urgent need of "major reform." Elon Musk reignites debate on H-1B visa programme, calls it 'broken' which needs to be reformed Musk, along with Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, has been tapped by Trump to lead his Department of Government Efficiency. "The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H-1B," Musk last week wrote on X. Musk, however, appeared to retract his earlier statement in response to a post by an X user who said America needed to be a destination for the world’s most "elite talent" but argued the current H-1B system was not the solution. Musk, who was once on an H-1B visa and whose electric vehicle company Tesla has hired workers using the programme, defended the tech industry's need to hire foreign workers.