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Matthew Yglesias
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I think this is wrong. It makes sense for Trump to proceed with caution when advancing right-wing policy (like abortion restrictions) but if he and Musk want to loudly champion expanded legal immigration they can carry the day — it’ll just require working with some Democrats.
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Ruxandra Teslo 🧬
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Well said from @tylercowen
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Matthew Yglesias
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You’re not going to get this done on a party-like vote because obviously *some* GOP members are fanatical nativists, but Trump can sell his base on this (just like it was Obama who set deportation records).
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Jon Levine
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NEW from me President Trump tells me he supports H-1B visas calling it "a great program” and adds "I have many H-1B visas on my properties" nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-
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Matthew Yglesias
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It’s been great to see Musk and the Tech Right talk about the importance of visas for engineers, but Trump can hopefully help them broaden their understanding of the wide range of sectors that can benefit from legal employment migration.
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Ruxandra Teslo 🧬
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I think the point is that it's better if it looks like it's coming from Trump. It was already floated during an Arizona rally that Trump is taking "orders" from Musk and I'm not sure Trump will like this long term.
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does Trump even need the help of anti-immigration hardliners anymore? He won. He is a “lame duck” unless he wants a constitutional crisis…seems worth debating whether he has enough to be done with them. They all want the same thing on taxes, so it won’t impact reconciliation
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Richard Yeselson
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Not sure. Running on a blistering, full on nativist platform galvanized a significant part of the gop base. He can win with Dems—but that will wreak havoc on that base, as surely as being explicitly pro choice (not merely shrewdly hedging on national policy) would.
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Nick Lindare
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Be hilarious if: 1. Latinos turn away from Ds bc years of failed promises on citizenship 2. Ds give Rs the lift for visa expansion, making 3. Racists ditch Rs And 4. Latinos turn away Rs bc they increased immigration but did nothing on citizenship
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Lowicious Bridge
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H1B by definition is not an immigration policy. Trump used it to hire cooks and waiters for Mar-A-Lago, so it seems it is not even for labor shortages. It is for cheap labor. Stephen Miller even railed against it as a way for tech to get cheap labor.
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Arjentu
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Always a winning move to subvert the will of the people and obfuscate your actions. This isn't 1955, you can't do that anymore.
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