Zinsky I believe the culprit is the culture that America has built for itself. I have talked about this before, and here is a long summary:

The same basic worker here in the USA (say a mine worker, a teacher, a cashier, etc.) makes 10 to 100 times what the same job would bring in the third world. Why is that and how can an economy sustain this? The answer is that it cannot, unless you have a positive deficit between capital influx and outflow. This is the case with the united states. Most of the capital outflow is the investment that US makes in foreign countries by the companies + some government handouts to other governments to shut up/play the game US wants them to play. But the capital influx is not just all the earnings that those investments bring back. The wealth that people voluntarily take out of their country and bring it here is enormous. Now why do they do that? It is because of either financial or safety insecurity of where the wealth was acquired. So, it is a tremendous business for the US to make the rest of the world unstable, unsafe, and poor. A small portion of that money then trickles down to people who do the basic chores of the society.

You might say well US is taking care of its people that way. Well, not really. Aside from the moral standards that in every society, religion, school of thought makes it wrong to harm others for your own pocket, you also are training your people to do very little work for the undeserved money. This develops a sense of entitlement, laziness, and all sorts of other behavioral issues that has been bogging down the US economy for decades.

So, what have geniuses in Washington done about this? Well, instead of reversing the policy of destabilization of good governments (we have seen this in our country in many rounds), installation of corrupt dictators (Syria, Egypt, almost all other Arab countries, south/central america), or when all else fails war, they implement the policy of brain drain to get the workers they need to run their economy.

This has worked for decades. The problem is that now we have China as a major economic super power. China's trade deficit with the USA is + for China. Also while china allows wealth to exit its country, it is not stupid like Arabs, it is limited, controlled, and demands ownership which leads to a lot of stuff in the USA suddenly belonging to the Chinese (including a big portion of the national debt) who are visibly foreigners. This is not only squeezing the pie for the USA but also makes people feel that economic squeeze. With their sense of entitlement and laziness they then start wondering why are all these foreigners here. They are stealing our jobs and money which then leads to insecure and bigot people emerge in politics and win elections.

 

So, now Trump and Musk are stuck in a dilemma: How to bring even more foreign workers in while looking like they are kicking them out. Use of US workers is a hopeless task not just for the hi-tech but also for agriculture and a lot of other intense jobs.