Marjorie Taylor Greene responds to MAGA civil war over H-1B visas

Far-right conservative Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene shared her opinion on the ongoing debate about the H-1B, a visa class for specialized workers, on social media.

“Go apply for a job and replace the H1-B visa holders and all the other skilled labor jobs that foreign workers are taking and American companies are desperately trying to hire,” Greene posted. “It’s called building a career, you work your way up.”

Why It Matters

Greene said she came back from her “Christmas bliss” to see the “MAGA split” over H-1B “imported labor” and American workers. She spoke about her time owning a construction company and how she saw the “workforce issues.”

“However, I fully believe we must make the hard and necessary changes here in the U.S. to educate, build, and facilitate a solid foundation of knowledgeable, highly skilled, talented, well paid, AMERICAN workers,” Greene said.

She said the lack of American workers is “like having a crumbling foundation in our house.”

“Currently we are importing foreigners to hold up the foundation walls and plug the leaks,” she said. “In order to go forward we must change our education system, create a culture that respects hard work and productivity, cut government waste/spending/regulations in order to produce a healthy robust economy that lowers inflation and pays higher wages to an American workforce, so that H1-B is no longer needed and can be done away with.”

Greene called for a change to refocus on “America FIRST.”

“This requires everyone’s help to change it and we will all have to do what it takes to get it done,” she wrote. “It won’t be easy and it won’t be as quick as we like, but we can do it TOGETHER and the results will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN but EVEN BETTER THAN BEFORE!!!”

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to members of the press at the U.S. Capitol on December 5 in Washington, D.C. Greene took to social media to add to the H-1B visa discussion.

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What To Know

Greene is a longtime MAGA supporter, even suggesting in 2022 that there should be a “MAGA month.” She has frequently attended or participated in rallies against the federal government, Muslims and transgender people. Greene is one of President-elect Donald Trump’s most hardcore allies.

Most recently she called for the release of “the congressional sexual slush fund list,” backed the consideration of Elon Musk as speaker of the House, and promoted conspiracies around drones in New Jersey.

Discussions around the H-1B visa program have intensified over the recent days as some within Trump’s close circle have been advocating for removing country-specific caps on green cards to address backlogs faced by applicants from countries including India.

The debate started on Sunday after Trump named venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan as his artificial intelligence (AI) policy adviser. Laura Loomer, a Trump loyalist and far-right activist with a history of racially motivated comments, criticized the appointment as “deeply disturbing.”

She faced backlash and responded to a post that said the nation was built by “immigrants who drove innovation” by noting that the United States “was built by white Europeans” and “not third-world invaders from India.”

Musk, the world’s richest man who benefited from the H-1B program, wrote in a response to a post on his social media platform X on Wednesday that there are not enough “super talented” and “super motivated” engineers in the U.S.

Musk has continued to defend his argument, calling out Loomer for “trolling for attention.”

On Friday, War Room podcast host Steve Bannon, a fervent MAGA supporter, called out Musk for showing his “true colors.”

What People Are Saying

Bannon in a post to Getrr: “H1B Visa Program Should be Zeroed-Out —Used to Constantly Drive Wages Down and Replace American Tech Workers —the Foreign Worker Replacements are Treated Like Indentured Servants.”

Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas, on X: “I’ve done countless interviews explaining that we need immigrants and that they contribute to our economy! Businesses blow us up about needing workers. And what do ya know?! MAGA got played & is mad at who?! The same 2 guys that they were just yelling was looking out for them last week as the government was on the verge of a shutdown!”

Economics commentator Jason Harrison, on X: “People on tech twitter are actually shocked that some of their mutuals aren’t ‘only for legal immigration’ and just straight up racist LMAO.”