The H-1B Visa program is actually the model of how the U.S. should handle immigration, with its annual set quotas and emphasis on profession-specific jobs, as opposed to the chaotic flood of illegal migrants across the southern border. But the very limited and organized H-1B program still isn’t enough for some MAGA types who are now revealing themselves as opponents of most all forms of immigration. At the Free Press, Joe Nocera has a good summary of the “MAGA Civil War” over immigration, a war now pitting Steve Bannon vs Elon Musk. Locally, the Globe is getting into the debate as well. …

But this isn’t just about jobs and work visas, as Rupa Subramanya makes clear, also at the Free Press. There’s a clear racial component at play. Before pronouncing ‘Aha! A typical leftist response,’ keep in mind Subramanya is a harsh critic of both the ‘Woke Left and Nativist Right’ when it comes to racially categorizing human beings. It’s not a both-sides-ism view. It’s a real problem. In this specific H-1B case, we happen to be seeing the right’s old-fashioned nativist sentiments oozing out of the argumentative crevices.