Vivek Ramaswamy
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And that's what you're seeing a lot of people even in this industry of sort of quote unquote tourism to the United States. They're having their kids in the United States. They go back to their home country, but their kids enjoy birthright citizenship. That's built on a lie. You have people claiming to suffer from persecution.
And that's what you're seeing a lot of people even in this industry of sort of quote unquote tourism to the United States. They're having their kids in the United States. They go back to their home country, but their kids enjoy birthright citizenship. That's built on a lie. You have people claiming to suffer from persecution.
In fact, they're just working in the United States and then living in these relative mansions in parts of Mexico or Central America after they've spent four or five years making money here. Just abandon the lie. Let's just have an immigration system built on honesty. Just tell the truth.
In fact, they're just working in the United States and then living in these relative mansions in parts of Mexico or Central America after they've spent four or five years making money here. Just abandon the lie. Let's just have an immigration system built on honesty. Just tell the truth.
In fact, they're just working in the United States and then living in these relative mansions in parts of Mexico or Central America after they've spent four or five years making money here. Just abandon the lie. Let's just have an immigration system built on honesty. Just tell the truth.
If the argument is that we need more people here for economically filling jobs, I'm skeptical the extent to which a lot of those arguments actually end up being true. But let's have that debate in the open rather than having it through the back door saying that it's refugee and asylum status when we know it's a lie.
If the argument is that we need more people here for economically filling jobs, I'm skeptical the extent to which a lot of those arguments actually end up being true. But let's have that debate in the open rather than having it through the back door saying that it's refugee and asylum status when we know it's a lie.
If the argument is that we need more people here for economically filling jobs, I'm skeptical the extent to which a lot of those arguments actually end up being true. But let's have that debate in the open rather than having it through the back door saying that it's refugee and asylum status when we know it's a lie.
And then we justify it after the fact by saying that that economically helps the United States cut the dishonesty. And I just think that that is a policy we would do well to. to expand every sphere. We talk about from the military industrial complex, to the rise of the managerial class, to a lot of what our government's covered up about our own history, to even this question of immigration today.
And then we justify it after the fact by saying that that economically helps the United States cut the dishonesty. And I just think that that is a policy we would do well to. to expand every sphere. We talk about from the military industrial complex, to the rise of the managerial class, to a lot of what our government's covered up about our own history, to even this question of immigration today.
And then we justify it after the fact by saying that that economically helps the United States cut the dishonesty. And I just think that that is a policy we would do well to. to expand every sphere. We talk about from the military industrial complex, to the rise of the managerial class, to a lot of what our government's covered up about our own history, to even this question of immigration today.
Just tell the people the truth. And I think our government would be better serving our people if it did.
Just tell the people the truth. And I think our government would be better serving our people if it did.
Just tell the people the truth. And I think our government would be better serving our people if it did.
I think that is true for legal immigrants. I think it's not true for illegal immigrants. That's not what I saw. Yeah. So I in sort of in this this part of why I wrote this book. OK. And I mean, the book is called Truths. So better darn well have well sourced facts in here. Right. Can't be can't be made up hypotheses, hard truths.
I think that is true for legal immigrants. I think it's not true for illegal immigrants. That's not what I saw. Yeah. So I in sort of in this this part of why I wrote this book. OK. And I mean, the book is called Truths. So better darn well have well sourced facts in here. Right. Can't be can't be made up hypotheses, hard truths.
I think that is true for legal immigrants. I think it's not true for illegal immigrants. That's not what I saw. Yeah. So I in sort of in this this part of why I wrote this book. OK. And I mean, the book is called Truths. So better darn well have well sourced facts in here. Right. Can't be can't be made up hypotheses, hard truths.
And there's a chapter where even in my own research on it, Lex, I know a lot about this issue from my time as a presidential candidate. But even in writing the chapter on the border here. I learned a lot from a lot of different dimensions, and some of which even caused me to revise some of my premises going into it, okay?
And there's a chapter where even in my own research on it, Lex, I know a lot about this issue from my time as a presidential candidate. But even in writing the chapter on the border here. I learned a lot from a lot of different dimensions, and some of which even caused me to revise some of my premises going into it, okay?
And there's a chapter where even in my own research on it, Lex, I know a lot about this issue from my time as a presidential candidate. But even in writing the chapter on the border here. I learned a lot from a lot of different dimensions, and some of which even caused me to revise some of my premises going into it, okay?