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The MAGA Civil War Over H-1B Visas
When it comes to immigration, there are some fundamental disagreements brewing inside the right, writes Joe Nocera. (Photo by Sankhadeep Banerjee/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The latest immigration debate pits Silicon Valley overlords against the illiberal right of Steve Bannon.
By Joe Nocera
12.30.24 — U.S. Politics
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If you woke up from your Christmas reverie and encountered your news feed full of stories about something called H-1B, you could be forgiven for thinking we were experiencing the latest strain of bird flu. In fact, it was the fulcrum of the first great MAGA schism—and Trump isn’t even in office yet.

H-1B is not a new pandemic, but a visa program intended…

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Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera is an editor and writer at The Free Press. During his long career in journalism, he has been a columnist at The New York Times, Bloomberg, Esquire, and GQ, the editorial director of Fortune, and a writer at Newsweek, Texas Monthly and The Washington Monthly. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
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