A clash over an obscure immigration policy has been brewing for months within Trumpworld , one that could threaten the Republican administration’s unlikely alliance with Big Tech .

The H-1B visa process has always been divisive, but the debate over the renewable 3-year specialist visa, popular in the tech world, has taken on a new intensity. Prominent tech leaders in the Trump coalition have squared off against an explicitly xenophobic MAGA wing that opposes H-1B on economic and identity grounds, given that the majority of H-1Bs go to Indian people .

Roughly 60 percent of the hundreds of thousands of H-1B visas in use each year go to computer-related jobs , and companies that have sought to align with Trump, like Palantir , Oracle, and Tesla have all used the program .

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