This H1B argument is insane. What in the hell are you people doing??? You remind me of liberals using Media Matters style arguments. I feel like we are being engulfed in the same idiocy as never-Trumpers. You extreme ‘never-Elons’ are no different in your actions. You have very little real information and you are building an entire narrative around the little tidbit.
AT NO TIME has Trump or any of the leadership said ANYTHING about eliminating ALL immigration. The goal has always been to eliminate ILLEGAL immigration.
You are basing everything from one tweet with one undefinable stat. It’s the same thing we deride liberals for doing, and that they have been doing since day one on the escalator.
You’re taking part of a post:
“Elon Musk @elonmusk Maybe this is a helpful clarification: I am referring to bringing in via legal immigration the top ~0.1% of engineering talent as being essential for America to keep winning.”
and doing what with that?
.1% of WHAT? The following stats are from Grok. Yes, there are probably other numbers depending on date limitations that you can throw back, and I’m not going to get into the pages that were sourced for the answers. There are a lot. Either way they will be close and will get to the point.
How many people work annually under the H1B Visa program?
My summary. 85,000. 65,000 under a cap with an additional 20,000 for people with a masters degree or higher. Visas can be renewed and extended, so that isn’t the entire number at any one time. Estimates are that there are currently 583,000 working here under H1B Visas.
I was going to get into the IT industry stats but I won't her because Elons statement and percentage is for engineering, not IT. Yes, there is a problem with IT, and the greatest number of people currently bitching about the H1B issue are IT. Anything IT that you see as a ‘future plan’ from his one post is pure fantasy.
Elons post. Engineers. What’s up with that? From Grok:
How many people are filling engineering positions in the US
In the United States, there are approximately 1.6 million people employed as engineers. However, there is a significant gap between the number of engineering positions available and the number of graduates or workers filling these roles. Posts on X suggest that around 400,000 new engineering positions are needed annually, but only about one-third of these positions are being filled, indicating a substantial shortage.
We have a shortfall of NEW engineers that will be required to fill NEW positions. Not replacing current engineers. Colleges have been turning out people who went for basket weaving DEI degrees. There are not enough people graduating with engineering degrees to fill the upcoming needs. Do we just slam the entire system to a halt and wait while we convince high school students that DEI is BS, motivate them to a higher goal of an advanced degree, then wait 6 years for them to graduate? No. We need talent NOW. NEW positions that are opening. That's what Elon is talking about.
In your frenzy of going ballistic with an absolute void of information, tell me. What is ‘.1% of engineering talent’? .1% of the entire engineering industry? .1% of all new H1B Visas issued? .1% of all Visas currently in use? .1% of a cap reduction in Visas? YOU ARE MAKING ARGUMENTS WITH NO INFORMATION.
Most of the arguments are ‘Look what has happened’. ‘Look what’s happening now’. ‘Look at the broken system.’ THIS IS WHY WE ELECTED TRUMP.
Is everyone acting like Trump is going to do nothing about the border? No. You are using the same ‘Look what has happened’…’look what’s happening now’ argument as the border but unlike ‘we are going to fix it’ you’re acting as though nothing is going to be done.
Yes, there is a problem. People have mentioned ‘reforming the system’, just like ‘fixing the border’. What reforms? Some things that have been mentioned. Lowering the caps. Increasing skill requirements. Penalties for abusing the system and using it to replace workers for lower pay.
And as far as ‘Trump is giving in to big-tech because he is speaking to them’. What an asinine statement. ‘Keep your friends close, and keep your enemies closer’. And trying to make some enemies your friends doesn’t mean giving in to them. He could be preparing them for a reduction in tech-Visas or an increase in skill requirements. We don’t know. The people making the arguments DON’T KNOW JACK.
Chill.
So why the hell didn't you have an accurate list of prohibited items???
Your list, the list in all of the emails, NO list said we couldn't bring in battery chargers.
Out at 12:30pm in the heat. We got in line on the pavement at 1:30pm. Got to the checkpoint probably around 6:00pm. Chargers and fans WEREN'T ALLOWED. I would have had to toss $150+ worth of chargers, and had a dead phone.
I have chased fireworks all over Texas, Oklahoma, and Nevada for 28 years. I have NEVER missed good fireworks shows.
I planned this trip during the campaign. The most expensive vacation we have ever taken. Blown.
I would have understood the weather issue. Not the chaos of incorrect lists, different advice from police and national guard, etc.
The police and national guard even said 'What???' when I showed them what wasn't allowed.
🎆 Happy 250th Birthday, America! 🇺🇸
Today, we're celebrating in style — lighting up the Brandenburg Gate in honor of 250 years of American independence.
Fuck you. Some people pulled money out of savings and planned for months. It's POS people like you why democrats MUST NOT WIN until evil people are filtered out.
I love America and fireworks. I don't give a damn if Race-baiting obama was president, or cackling Kamala. If they were doing big fireworks, I would have come.
Democrats are scum.
You do not want to miss this.
President Trump says America’s 250th birthday celebration is going to be “the likes of which we’ve never seen before.”
NASA is leading a flyover over the National Mall on the 4th of July to celebrate this great country and mark 250 years of American greatness.
If you live in America, love America, or are thankful for the freedoms this country has given you, this is something you should be celebrating.
Be there if you can, spread the word, and let’s get this out everywhere.
America only turns 250 once. Let’s make it count. 🇺🇸
So evidently you hate America. Isn't it odd that democrats, even before Trump, could never cheer 'USA!'
If the demonrats were in charge all we would be celebrating is how awful America is.
It would have been absolutely disgusting.
Maybe you should pay attention to emails happening in the UK and EU. We were heading toward those hellholes.
🇺🇸 AMAZING! Japan just did a whole FIREWORKS SHOW celebrating America’s birthday today, as it’s now July 4 in Tokyo
This is what a REAL ally looks like.
Unlike most of our European “allies”
God bless America, and God bless Japan! 🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵
On July 4, 2026, we celebrate 250 years of American independence with a day built for the history books.
12:00 PM - Media Entry Opens
1:00 PM - Guest Entry Opens
1:15 PM - Military Flyover Demonstrations Begin
5:00 PM - Opening Programming Begins
7:00 PM - Salute to America Program Begins
9:45 PM - Remarks by President Donald J Trump
10:30 PM - Largest Fireworks Show in History
Guest entrance at 14th Street between Constitution and Independence.
Please review the full guidelines before joining us on the National Mall for Salute to America on July 4.
We can’t wait to see you there! 🇺🇸🎉🦅
JUST ANNOUNCED: The Washington Monument Illumination returns to the National Mall July 1 through July 5. Each evening, an 18-minute projection-mapping presentation will light the Monument with the people, places, and moments that have shaped the American story, ending with the Monument glowing as a giant birthday candle.
Come watch any night between 9:00 PM and 12:20 AM ET, with the best viewing along the National Mall.
🚨 ASSANGE CONFIRMED IT: TRUMP IS THE CLEANEST MAN IN WASHINGTON!
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Megyn Kelly why his organization never dropped any damaging material on President Trump:
“There is no dirt to release on Donald Trump.”
He called him “probably the most squeaky clean individual in Washington” — because Trump isn’t a career politician and has zero ties to the globalist elite cabal.
That’s exactly why they’ve hated him from the start. No blackmail. No leverage. No skeletons to exploit. Just a true outsider who came to drain the swamp.
Patriots, the lies are collapsing in real time. This is the vindication we’ve always known was coming.
@TruthBeagle@CyndexiaTruther B-freaking-I-N-G-O! Talking to people at the games I've been to, I heard this so many times. 'The Media has lied about America, and the American people', 'I wonder what else they are lying about'.
NEW: Speaker Mike Johnson says the World Cup is creating an ironic split screen across America, as fans from around the world appreciate the U.S. "so more than these socialists running for Congress."
While radical left Democrats spend their time criticizing the country, visitors from around the world are flooding social media with videos of themselves falling in love with it — from Buc-ee’s and Waffle House to free chips and salsa in Texas.
"They've never known freedom. They've never known these kinds of things, and they're seeing them for themselves. The genius of America's system, a system that rewards risk takers and entrepreneurs and job creators and innovators and people who create jobs for others and expand the economy and opportunity and broaden the pathway out of poverty for more people."
"That's what we promise to the voters, and that's what we are delivering."
As an expert on Islam, I state: The U.S. is finished. It has no idea at all that this is coming for it, and it has zero tools to defend itself. On the contrary, the tools it does have will be turned against it to destroy it. Islam will wipe it out. It will be brutal, and far worse than anything happening in Western Europe.
The haters of Israel and the Jews in America will pay a heavy price for the elections and the side they chose. So will their children and grandchildren, with compound interest collected by members of the Islamic Ummah. They will tear down the democratic system and the Constitution by using the tools of democracy and the Constitution itself, while shaking the foundations of American existence in ways that have not happened since independence. It will be devastating.
The U.S. will slide into a civil war that will make the wars in Syria and Iraq look like child's play. This is not a maybe. It will happen for sure.
The Lincoln Memorial Undercroft opens tomorrow, unveiling a space hidden beneath one of America's most iconic landmarks since 1922. 🎉
Step inside and see how it was built, preserved, and what it means. Timed-entry tickets now available: https://t.co/FTjaB7Ksbo
Desde que el presidente Trump cerró USAID:
Fue derrocado el tirano Maduro
Ganó la derecha en Perú
Ganó la derecha en Chile
Ganó la derecha en Bolivia
Ganó la derecha en Ecuador
Ganó la derecha en Honduras
Ganó la derecha en Colombia.
Gracias Presidente Trump. 🇺🇸🦅
This is so captivating precisely because it has become such a rare sight in modern European societies.
Each traveling World Cup fan base showcases the full, unfiltered expression of its national identity, something that now feels discouraged back home.
Mass migration and a prevailing culture of self-loathing have made open pride in one’s heritage increasingly unfashionable.
From Swedish fans raising maypoles and weaving flower crowns, to Norwegians rowing in unison like their Viking ancestors, to Scots marching in tartan to the sound of bagpipes. These are living portraits of a people, distilled to their purest essence. They embody the particular inheritance of language, custom, landscape, and ancestral memory that shaped who they are.
For a few short weeks, Swedes can be fully and unselfconsciously Swedish again. Norwegians and Scots the same. The joy on display is the visible relief of finally remembering who you are when the constant pressure to dilute (or apologize for) that identity is lifted.
These fans prove that the old nations still live on inside their people. Mass migration has transformed their homelands, and critical theory has instilled a deep sense of guilt, so much so that public displays of historic identity are now often seen as provocative rather than innocent and affectionate. Yet none of this has erased the fundamental human need to belong to a particular culture and story, and to express it without apology.
What’s tragic is that this authentic expression can now only be performed freely abroad, at events like the World Cup. Enjoy it while it lasts