Rosemary Jenks
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Y'all have been great.
We are so happy to be talking to you all and we need your support.
Yeah, Steve, it's so funny because all of the stories that are coming out in the mainstream media, the New York Times included, talk about how, you know, economists are worried because stopping or reducing legal immigration or reducing H-1Bs is going to increase the cost of labor.
Well, yeah, because employers are going to have to actually pay Americans American wages.
That's the whole point.
So, I mean, it's just ludicrous to think that we need to essentially pay slave labor to do all these various jobs in the United States when we have plenty of Americans.
And guess what?
If those Americans are not employed, we're paying for them on welfare, right?
So one way or another, we have to pay.
We're either paying for them on welfare or we're paying for foreign workers to replace them, or employers are paying wages that Americans can actually live on.
And that is critical.
So one of the things that happened, I think it was after the end of the AmFest that this was released, was a poll showing that 90 percent, I think it was 90 percent, want an immigration moratorium.
And that is huge.
And Republicans in Congress and the White House need to pay attention to this.
This is a massive issue.
And I will tell you, Steve, if we are able to, you know, in some way massively restrict the H-1B visa,
Americans are going to find out that there are a plethora of other visas that also reduce their wages and displace them from jobs.
So fixing the H-1B is great.
Eliminating the H-1B is great.
But it's not going to solve the whole problem because our legal immigration system is massively out of control and has been for the last 50 years.