Musk influence sparks fresh talk in Congress on high-skilled immigrants

A Christmas Day social media brawl between President-elect Donald Trump’s backers in Silicon Valley and the MAGA base highlighted the looming battle facing the incoming White House and Congress over high-skilled immigration. Early conversations are already taking place on Capitol Hill, where Republican lawmakers are openly mulling new plans to boost numbers of high-tech immigrants as Elon Musk and other tech billionaires—including many who have named skilled immigration a priority—flex their expanding influence on Trump and the GOP. But the online blowup suggests immigration hard-liners won’t surrender easily to Trump’s new tech friends.