When President-elect Donald Trump tapped Sriram Krishnan to be a senior policy advisor on artificial intelligence, he inadvertently revealed one of the major fissures within the nationalist conservative coalition—and the fault lines will likely shape a good portion of his second term in office.
Krishnan is an Indian-American tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and business partner of Marc Andreessen, a key Trump ally with significant ties to Silicon Valley. As a wildly successful immigrant, Krishnan has advocated for streamlining America's overly bureaucratic green card system and eliminating the per-country caps on H-1B visas, which are available to specially skilled foreign workers. Most of the H-1B workers in the United States are Indians, but there would likely be even more if the arbitrary per-country caps were eliminated.
