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Which companies have the most employees working on an H-1B visa?


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

Trump supporters and his tech allies argue over H-1B visas02:48 In helping instigate a heated debate over H-1B visas, Elon Musk is speaking both from personal experience and as a business owner. "I'm in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B," Musk, who early in his career worked in the U.S. on an H-1B visa, posted Friday on his social media site, X. Musk also vowed to "go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend." The tech industry has long pushed to expand the number H-1B visas granted by the government to bring skilled workers to the U.S. from India, China, Canada, Korea, the Philippines and other countries.

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