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The Stephen A. Smith Show

Stephen A's Take: Trump sides with Musk and Ramaswamy. H-1B visas fueling divide in MAGA world.

The Stephen A. Smith Show

SiriusXM

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown.Support the show: http://www.youtube.com/@stephenasmith

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0:00.0

I know I might have shocked everybody when I talked about Donald Trump and how he could go a long way towards sort of minimizing.

0:15.0

I certainly never say, we'll never say resolving, but to least to some degree minimizing the kind of things that we witness transpire

0:23.3

with Robert Brooks, courtesy of correctional or New York City correctional officers,

0:30.3

who murdered him.

0:33.3

I'll touch on that in just a second and elaborate on my point because I'm going to try to make it make sense for y'all.

0:40.0

Right now, Donald Trump is in the news for another reason.

0:44.5

And it's because of his two guys, Musk, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramoswami, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswami, how they're

0:57.4

defending foreign worker visas, sparking a backlash from the Maga right itself. According to a

1:05.8

report reading right here from CNN, social media posts by Elon Musk and Revec Ramoswamy arguing in favor of expanding

1:12.4

the visa program for highly skilled workers have set off a debate among supporters of President

1:17.6

elect Donald Trump over how the program should fit into the incoming administration's aggressive

1:22.2

immigration agenda. Musk and Ramoswamy, whom Trump has tapped to lead his Department of Government

1:27.8

Efficiency, that's the DOGE, defended companies who use workers on H-1B visas, arguing tech

1:36.0

companies, including those owned by Musk, of course, depend on foreign workers to operate.

1:41.9

But the message rankled some of Trump's most loyal defenders who expect

1:45.2

his administration to crack down on immigration and promote American workers. Trump restricted access

1:51.9

to foreign worker visas during his first term and as targeted the H-1B program and passed remarks.

1:57.0

But during the 2024 campaign, Trump signaled openness to giving some foreign workers

2:03.2

legal status if they graduated from a U.S. university. Musk actually compared the situation

2:09.6

to sports. Listen to this quote from Elon Musk. If you want your team to win the championship,

2:15.3

you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be. That

2:18.2

enables the whole team to win, Musk wrote on X, which obviously he owns. I am referring to bringing

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