Natalie Winters

It's what animated the Elon Musk and Vivek debate over what it means

To be an American, should we be studying 25 hours a day, eight days, increase the length of the day so all we can do is study?

That's not what this country was founded on.

If you look at the history of us going back to the revolution, the pre-revolutionary days, it's this idea of civil society and community.

And that's something that's distinctly unique.

But I also think that you see this sort of just

a core lie that permeates into the H1B narrative, which is, again, both cultural but also economic.

And it's this idea that we need to import foreigners in order to continue to be the America that we once were.

And I wanna just cite a statistic from the White House's own website, because what was it?

Just a month ago, they were busy pumping the airwaves with ideas that they were going to basically reform, if not get rid of the H1B program.

But what it shows is that the share of IT workers in the H-1B program grew from 32% in 2003 to an average of over 65%, that's an aggregate, of the last five years.

What is the significance of that?

America was a great country and was the leading in technological innovation, and basically every industry dominated that industry.

long before the H-1B program was ever around.

And you can't tell me that from 2003 to now, it's been H-1B Indians that don't even speak English or Chinese spies stealing whatever it may be for not just civilian use, but for military use from our leading tech companies that somehow helped bridge that gap.

And if you look, the other lie, Steve, that is so critical to understand, when we're told that it is the, get ready for this, I'm sure you've heard it, best and brightest, right, that we're bringing into this country, whether it's the H-1B or the foreign students, that's not true.

Now, they play the sort of weird game where they intentionally hide the data, right?

It's like what they do with the deportations or the actual numbers of immigrants, illegal aliens coming in because they don't want us to be informed.

But from the publicly available data compounded with the studies that groups like Center for Immigration Studies have done, the overwhelming majority, I'm talking upwards of 80% of the H-1B recipients who are coming into this country, which oftentimes it's via lottery, though they reformed that slightly.

are in the level one and level two qualification of skill and pay, which means they're not the best and brightest.