David Sacks, who has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump because the ‘AI and Crypto Czar’, on Tuesday publicly supported Sriram Krishnan, the Indian-American AI Coverage Advisor, in response to criticism from far-right journalist Laura Loomer.
Attacking Krishnan’s views on immigration coverage, significantly relating to H-1B visas and inexperienced card reforms, Loomer, in an X put up, known as Krishnan a “profession leftist.”
She additionally slammed Krishan’s appointment because the AI Coverage Advisor within the Donald Trump 2.0 administration.
“Deeply disturbing to see the appointment of Sriram Krishnan as Senior Coverage Advisor for AI on the Workplace of Science and Expertise Coverage. It’s alarming to see the variety of profession leftists who are actually being appointed to serve in Trump’s admin once they share views which might be in direct opposition to Trump’s America First agenda,” Loomer wrote on X.
“How will we management immigration in our nation and promote America First innovation when Trump appointed this man who needs to REMOVE all restrictions on inexperienced card caps in the USA in order that international college students (which make up 78% of the staff in Silicon Valley) can come to the US and take jobs that needs to be given to American STEM college students,” she additional added.
Loomer’s remarks stemmed from Krishnan’s earlier assertion, during which he backed reforms within the inexperienced card system, significantly placing an finish to country-specific caps that restrict the variety of inexperienced playing cards allotted to candidates from every nation.
In an X put up, Krishnan argued that the present coverage creates inefficiencies within the system and disproportionately impacts candidates from international locations with extra expert immigrants, equivalent to India.
How David Sacks backed Sriram Krishnan
David Sacks, a outstanding entrepreneur and investor, got here out in Krishnan’s defence and mentioned that the latter doesn’t advocate for eradicating all inexperienced card caps.,
“Sriram didn’t say he needs to take away all caps on inexperienced playing cards. He mentioned he needs to take away nation caps on inexperienced playing cards. Proper now, each nation on the planet will get allotted the identical variety of inexperienced playing cards, regardless of what number of certified candidates it has.
So candidates from India have an 11-year wait whereas candidates from many different international locations haven’t any wait in any respect. Sriram nonetheless helps skills-based standards for receiving a inexperienced card, not making this system limitless,” Sacks mentioned.
“In actual fact, he needs to make this system completely merit-based. Supporting a restricted variety of extremely expert immigrants remains to be a prevalent view on the fitting. Sriram isn’t a “profession leftist,” he went on to clarify.
Notably, the controversy over immigration reform has change into a pivotal concern within the US because the President-elect earlier mentioned he will likely be bringing colossal modifications to the present system in alignment together with his ‘America First’ marketing campaign.
Nevertheless, many are advocating the decision to regulate the inexperienced card system as it might assist appeal to and retain the very best world expertise.
