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Former X (earlier Twitter) executive Esther Crawford has hit back at anti-immigrant rhetoric on X, saying the platform itself survived because of H-1B engineers, many from India and China, who worked tirelessly during the company’s takeover period.
Crawford, who served as Director of Product Management during the company’s takeover and rebranding as X, said that the platform survived because of the H-1B engineers from India and China after the takeover, as they worked long hours during critical times.
“Twitter/X survived because of H-1B engineers, mostly from India & China. They stayed after the acquisition, worked long hours and solved brutally complex problems alongside American colleagues. When posting anti-immigrant takes, remember: they’re the reason you can tweet at all,” she wrote on X.
Her remarks come after US President Donald Trump’s recent H-1B visa proclamation imposed a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications.
Meanwhile, the US Secretary of Commerce defended the Trump administration’s latest immigration measures and slammed the US Former President Joe Biden for the influx of large numbers of “illegal aliens in America”.
“For the past four years, open-border Democrats endlessly flooded the country with illegal aliens at the expense of hardworking Americans. The Trump administration is completely reversing course on that disastrous agenda. These programs guarantee that recipients who come to work in America must provide significant benefit to our great country. We are ending workers taking jobs away from hard working Americans and taking advantage of our economy and providing nothing in return. The Trump Card begins to restore our immigration system to its intended purpose: significantly benefitting America,” the Secretary said in an X post.
