Americans Come First: The Truth about H-1B Visas and "Skilled Worker" Immigration
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Ryan, welcome back to the program.
Thanks, Charlie, for having me.
So I wanted to have you on because you are an expert on this now very high profile and controversial issue. And it shouldn't be that controversial, but I guess that's one way to frame it, which is H-1B visas. So the position of this program is Americans come first and America is for Americans only. And this is not that controversial of a position.
What are the issues with the H-1B visa program?
that if we're going to have immigration, legal immigration, it should benefit the homeland. It should be done very, very intelligently. However, we've had this mass migration wave, so it makes sense to allow things to cool down and to reanalyze the way we do immigration altogether. With that being said, the people that are pushing for, let's say, more H-1Bs or something similar, I can sympathize with some of their premises. So where are we at right now with this H-1B debate, and what do you think is most missing from the current dialogue surrounding it?
Well, first of all, I mean, immigration, to paraphrase what Bill and Hillary Clinton used to say about abortion in the 90s, immigration should be safe, legal, and rare. In a natural market economy, there is no such thing as a long-term labor shortage, right? That is not natural. The labor shortage, the ongoing quote-unquote labor shortage, is increasingly worse because of our H-1B visa system and most of our visa systems, actually. Right. When the H-1B system was created in 1990, by the way, it's not like we had this in 1776 and we needed to bring Albert Einstein or Albert Einstein came without an H-1B visa. The studies done justifying an H-1B system was created about wages, not about talent. It was about how do one... Our employers get involved in the Asian market and to how to how our employers work within a talent pool to work within a wage that works for them to suppress wages. The average H-1B visa worker in this country makes less than one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year.
These are not all, you know, the next Tesla or the next Elon Musk or the next anybody. And there's been consistent cases of visa fraud in the last two years under the Biden administration. There were two big cases, one being most famously Facebook, which was going straight to foreign countries through the H-1B visa system. And they were discriminating wholeheartedly against Americans. I think Facebook had to pay $15 million or $14 million for wholeheartedly just disqualifying Americans and discriminating against them. And then there's another company called Larson and Turbo Infotech. They're a company I think that has been like 4.6, 4.7 million in fines because they were firing Americans, qualified Americans, and replacing them with Indian H-1B workers.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic of this episode?
0:00–1:59
2
What are the issues with the H-1B visa program?
1:59–5:10
3
How do H-1B visas affect American workers?
5:10–8:45
4
What evidence exists of discrimination against American workers?
8:45–11:48
5
How is the current immigration debate shaping the Republican Party?
11:48–14:38
6
What is the public opinion on immigration policies?
14:38–18:09
7
How do economic factors influence immigration discussions?
18:09–34:28
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