A debate over the program for skilled foreign workers has pitted immigration hard-liners against some of President Trump’s most influential supporters in the tech industry.

The reason to change to a beneficiary-centric selection process for H-1B registrations was to reduce the potential for gaming the process to increase chances for selection and help ensure that each beneficiary has the same chance of being selected, regardless of how many registrations are submitted on their behalf.

But there’s ample evidence the H-1B helps pretty much everyone else. Workers who enter the country on visas go on to start and run billion-dollar companies. Musk says he entered the country on a visa. He now runs Tesla, which employs more than 100,000 people .

The H1-B visa issue became highly contested within Donald Trump's own support base during the US presidential elections.

B visa program, designed to provide U.S. companies with access to specialized foreign talent, has become a focal point of political and cultural conflict. Advocates like President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk argue that it is indispensable for fostering innovation and maintaining America’s competitive edge.

Tesla founder Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of H-1B visas, and his company's use of the program jumped sharply this year.

For every H-1B visa holder who thrives in and contributes to our country’s economy and culture, we can point to many more students already in the U.S. who have few opportunities to develop their strengths into true excellence.

Vivek Ramaswamy has said that Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday will bring the "dawn of a new Golden Age."

Tesla laid off roughly 6,600 workers. According to labor statistics, it filed about 1,300 H-1B visa applications around the same time.

Arun Prasad Jaganathan has worked in the US on an H-1B Visa for years. He says there's room for improvement in the system.

Federal prosecutors claimed the two falsely stated in 85 visa applications that prospective H-1B holders would work on-site on internal projects at their San Jose computer chip business,

"The H-1B visa is like the Swiss Army knife of visas. It's used for a lot of different purposes," said John Skrentny, a sociology professor at U.C. San Diego who wrote a book on why STEM graduates ...