MEDIA: Tech leaders pivot away from H-1B visa program after populist revolt

Semafor's Reed Albergotti on whether NeverBackDown.ORG's Ken Cuccinelli
and Steve Cortes advised Casey and Ron DeSantis to us the campaign
donations from the likes of Miriam Adelson, Edward DeBartolo, Robert
Bigelow, Walter Buckley, Betsy DeVos, Julie Jenkins Fancelli, Ken
Griffin, Julia Koch, Bernie Marcus, Lachlan Murdoch, Thomas Peterffy,
Bruce Rauner, Chris Reyes, David Sacks and Steve Wynn to buy campaign
advertisements on Murdoch's FoxNews.COM with the likes of Mike Emmons
impeaching Donald Trump for failing to convert the Cheap Labor Lobby's
H-1B scab worker import quota lottery to a wage ordered queue:
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| Now calls for reform of the program include tech titans like Elon
| Musk and Marc Andreessen, as well as their Democratic ally Rep. Ro
| Khanna of California and a broad coalition that includes Vermont
| Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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| The shift began in December, when the Trump administration hired an
| Indian American venture capitalist, Sriram Krishnan, to a key AI
| policy position, drawing a vitriolic and sometimes racist backlash
| on Musk's X. Former Trump aide Steve Bannon called the program "a
| total and complete scam to destroy the American worker" and demanded
| "reparations for tech workers."

Was NeverBackDown.ORG's Cuccinelli in the running to succeed Kika
Scott at USCIS.GOV and if not, why not?

John
groenveld@acm.org
--
"Even by most generous interpretation, the "recent convert" (also to
nationalism!) does not have appropriate software updates to call the
tune.  w/Vermeule, it's something much dumber (too dumb to be
sinister).  See his work with the smarter and more charismatic Cass
Sunstein." -  Darren Beattie
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