Fox & Friends Weekend Co-hosts tip-toed through the H-1B visa minefield that has threatened to blow apart MAGA-world — with Donald Trump taking the side of Elon Musk over some of his stalwart supporters.
Rachel Campos-Duffy claimed that Trump coming out in favor of the H-1B visa program on Saturday when he had previously been against it, “left a lot of people confused”.
Charlie Hurt remarked, “The idea of having a program that allows an Elon Musk to come into the country, I don’t think anybody has a problem with that, and certainly Donald Trump doesn’t have a problem with that. The problem with the program is that it’s been so abused and turned into a system where it is designed for big tech employers to get, maybe not cheap labor, but cheaper labor.”
Later in the segment, Will Cain attempted to put a human face on the issue by adding, “We’re not an algorithm. We’re not a company. We are a country. We’re a nation. We are a people. And that purpose of that nation is to serve Americans.”
In order to do that, Campos-Duffy said Big Tech CEOs like Musk may have to sacrifice to pay American tech workers an attractive wage. And that seemed to be just fine by her:
If you limit those visas and only bring in the Elon Musks and
the really exceptional people, what you’re going to see is that there’s a tighter market and the wages will have to be — you’ll have to pay wages that young math students like my son-in-law, who is married and has to support a family, would want to be part of. And that may mean, guys, guess what? Fox News alert! It may mean that big tech bosses make a little less money and they have to pay their workers a little better. I think all of us would be okay with that.
Campos-Duffy added that the federal government should consider things like “STEM block grants to give kids educational opportunities in under-served communities. This is what we should be thinking about! Not importing people to do entry-level coding jobs but, how do we take our kids who need jobs and maybe can be trained into this? And I think if we change our education system, we certainly can.”
Watch the clips above via Fox News.