Steve Bannon, the former adviser to President Donald Trump, who always called H-1B visa program indentured servitude, again called out the program on his show as he spoke about the ongoing crackdown on migrants. Bannon said Elon Musk must understand that the H-1B visa program cannot be reformed as it is ‘scam from start to finish’. Bannon said to become a tech worker in modern America, a kid has to be dedidated to STEM, they have to do great in high school and then go to a great college, which is now flooded by Chinese and Asians with no place for Americans.”Let me just be blunt about H-1Bs for Elmo (Elon) Musk. It’s not going to be reformed; it can’t be,” Bannon said, adding that 12 million STE workers in the US do not have work now. Bannon said that it’s not about the greater skill that Americans don’t have and foreign graduates have, but the ‘H-1B scam’ is all about paying immigrants a third of what American citizens would make, with no benefits. 10 H-1Bs are being forced to live in a condominium in Silicon Valley, Bannon said, adding that America got rid of “indentured servitude in the 18th or 19th century.” The H-1B visa program is again making headlines after Donald Trump asserted that America needs certain types of talent from outside. As Trump’s comments triggered a MAGA civil war, the White House balanced it out saying that the president and the administration is always ‘America First’. Earlier this year, the administration imposed $100,000 fee for hiring H-1Bs so that companies are discouraged from replacing Americans with foreign workers. The US Department of Labor launched Project Firewall to put a stop to H-1B abuses by tech companies. But the administration has not spoken about abolishing the program at all which a section of MAGA desperately wants.
