In the United States, technology bosses led by Elon Musk had to defend the hiring of top engineers from abroad.
The future president of the United States Donald Trump’s support groups have drifted into arguing about immigration.
The dispute started when Trump nominated a technology entrepreneur by Sriram Krishnan as an artificial intelligence advisor to his new administration, The Hill reported.
Krishnan has previously suggested that the United States could grant more residency permits to talented engineers coming from abroad.
Krishnan’s appointment did not please the anti-immigration wing of Trump’s MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement. A far-right conspiracy theorist who joined Trump’s inner circle during the presidential election campaign Laura Loomer gave the tech bosses a full-on X.
– It is alarming to see how many career leftists are now getting a place in the Trump administration, even though they represent the complete opposite way of thinking compared to Trump’s “America First” thinking, Loomer wrote.
According to Loomer, jobs should be saved for American engineers.
Tech bosses rush to the defense
Loomer’s criticism put the technology bosses on the defensive. Advisers on the Trump administration’s cutting measures Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy both comment in X that there aren’t enough top-talented, hard-working engineers in the US, so the workforce has to be hired from abroad.
The hiring of experts from abroad was also defended by one of the founders of the analytics company Palantir Joe Lonsdale and the Trump administration’s chief of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency David Sacks.
Now Loomer asserts in Xthat Musk has tampered with the visibility of his X user and accuses this of censorship.
– Is publicizing mass immigration a stupid activity? It’s about freedom of speech. Pretty totalitarian if you ask me Loomer writes.