Aniket M

here we go exploring

[Aniket M @Aniket2See]

@scribe9104 @grok verify whats happening

[Aniket M @Aniket2See]

@immigrationgirl @DOGE @elonmusk

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 YESTERDAY: I asked Elizabeth Warren HOW she achieved a $12M net worth on a $200K salary, prompting a reply from Elon inquiring as well

TODAY: @ElonMusk announces in the Oval Office DOGE will be investigating public officials with high net worths and low pay

Our government FINALLY listens to US! 🇺🇸

WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW.

[Aniket M @Aniket2See]

@elonmusk @elonmusk any opportunity for tech folks who are stuck in green card backlog because they belong to a certain country. Should we not change it to merit based rather than quota based by each country

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

I’m excited to have Alex Graveley, the lead contributor to the first successful generative AI product, GitHub Copilot, join Perplexity. We’ve some exciting things to share soon!

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨President Trump speaks on H-1B: I like both sides, but I also like competent people coming in. I don’t want to stop.. we want competent people. I know the program very well.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

🚨 PRESIDENT TRUMP: "I'm fine with legal immigration. We need people. I'm absolutely fine with it."

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

A new dawn. 🇺🇸

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Congratulations my dear friend President @realDonaldTrump on your historic inauguration as the 47th President of the United States! I look forward to working closely together once again, to benefit both our countries, and to shape a better future for the world. Best wishes for a successful term ahead!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Well done, @JeffBezos, and the Blue Origin team!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Congratulations on reaching orbit on the first attempt!
@JeffBezos

[Deedy @deedydas]

Wrote an article for Forbes outlining my thoughts on the H-1B debate.

I have little patience for racism, I think there are bigger fish to fry, but both sides have very real points.

The H-1B program of 1990 wasn't built for 2025.

[Raj Karnatak, MD @raj_karnatak]

This is a very positive news. High skilled legal immigration should be allowed to travel for family emergencies. I have personally known people those couldn’t say final goodbye to loved ones due to visa hurdles and couldn’t attend funeral in the family. Thank you @ajainb for your efforts. Most high skilled immigrants on green card backlog have been already living in the US for years if not decades. @TravelGov

[Sam Peak 🇺🇸💡 @SpeakSamuel]

I pulled DOL data from 2024 and looked at Tesla's H-1B petitions:

- The lowest offered base salary was $84,752. Only 15 of 479 petitions offered base salaries below $100,000.

- The median base salary offered was $150,093. 53 petitions offered salaries above $200,000.

- On average, Tesla is offering these H-1B applicants base salaries that are 16% above what similarly experienced Americans working in the same job and location make.

Senator Sanders's staff likely just screen capped some long outdated info about Tesla's foreign labor certification petitions from a non-government website and erroneously portrayed it as being applicable to today.

This is why they say that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. Please just use the DOL website to pull the H-1B labor certification data. You can do it by year, sort by employer, compare wages offered to the prevailing wage, and sift through the different visa categories. 👇
https://t.co/kDwLKhMOPf

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The Democrats oppose voter ID so that they can commit voting fraud and not get caught. It’s that simple.

[Rep. María Elvira Salazar @RepMariaSalazar]

.@DOGE should search for govt inefficiencies in our immigration system.

Bureaucratic hurdles & horrendous wait times make legal immigration extremely difficult, while illegal immigration has surged. Must address both.

Happy to talk more about it, @elonmusk & @VivekGRamaswamy!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Anyone – of any race, creed or nationality – who came to America and worked like hell to contribute to this country will forever have my respect.

America is the land of freedom and opportunity. Fight with every fiber of your being to keep it that way!

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

I’ve said it countless times in the last 2 years & will say it again: the H-1B system is badly broken & should be replaced with one that focuses on selecting the very best of the best (not a lottery), pro-competitive (no indentured service to one company), and de-bureaucratized.

[Aniket M @Aniket2See]

@deedydas Beautifully put👍🏻

[Deedy @deedydas]

If you set aside the racism, at the core of this H-1B brouhaha is a very real age old debate of meritocracy vs protectionism.

Some Americans feel like their country is giving away great jobs to people from other countries (and India IS a majority here) which can also dilute its culture. People in tech argue that we need to attract the best and brightest talent no matter where they're from to be able to build the coolest things.

Competing in a global marketplace of talent is difficult, and a lot of Americans haven't been dealt a good hand. DEI initiatives in college hurt the white middle class. Good education is expensive. And to Vivek's point, as much as I love American culture, it's just not as conducive to creating software engineers as a far more resource-constrained education-heavy culture like in India. In India, people often grow up grinding their entire life studying away to get a shot at an engineering job. In history, this is often the case. Developed countries become complacent and developing ones have hunger.

When Americans compete with people who have worked harder for longer (and speak English) in a global marketplace, the odds are stacked against you. Indian families will go to extremes: pool all their wealth and take a loan to bet on a world-class education. Would Americans do that? In the past, this hasn't been an issue since the tech pie was getting bigger and there were jobs for all. Now, amidst layoffs, there may not be. Separately, any flagrant abuse of the H-1B by non innovative low wage IT consulting firms should be stopped.

Ultimately, you have an ideological battle to pick - do you want meritocracy or protectionism? One has helped America historically become a world leader in innovation and technology whereas the other usually leads to Europe. To be protectionist and win, you might need to be prepared to do the 996 grind like China. You need to invest domestically in STEM education from an early age (it blows my mind that you can finish high school in the US and have calculus be optional).

It's an important political debate to have, and I wish it wasn't clouded by midwits and racists who cite anecdotes and use ad-hominem instead of facts and reason.