Buck Brief - America Doesn't Need Foreigners to Make it Great

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Is President Trump still America first when it comes to H-1B visas? The short answer is yes, my friends, but the longer answer is what we're going to talk about here. After all of the hubbub, the hullabaloo, the controversy, after the interview he did with Laura Ingram, I'm going to make sense of it all for you. First of all, President Trump is a realist and is, as he has pointed out many times, including in this interview, the guy who better understands the America First Movement more than anyone else, considering that he is the founder and leader of it. But I understand why there was a little bit of concern after this particular answer on Laura Ingraham's show about H1B visas. I want to explain what is... Real about this or what is concerning about H-1B visas and what Trump is saying about H-1B visas. I'm going to do a little bit of yes. Trump translation on this one for you. Americans have to talk about it. And does that mean the H-1B visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration? Because if you want to raise wages for American workers, you can't flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers. But you also do have to bring in talent. Well, we have plenty of talented people here. No, you don't. We don't have talented people here. No, you don't have, you don't have certain talents and you have to, people have to learn. You can't take people off an unemployment, like an unemployment line. and say, I'm going to put you into a factory or we're going to make missiles. How did we ever do it before? Well, let me just, I'll give you an example in Georgia. They raided because they wanted illegal immigrants out. They had people from South Korea that made batteries all their lives. You know, making batteries are very complicated. It's not an easy thing. It's very dangerous, a lot of explosions, a lot of problems. They had like five or six hundred people. early stages to make batteries and to teach people how to do it. Well, they wanted them to get out of the country. You're going to need that, Laura. I mean, I know you and I disagree on this. You can't just say a country's coming in going to invest $10 billion to build a plant and get to take people off an unemployment line who haven't worked in five years and they're going to start making missiles. It doesn't work that way. So here's the thing. There are cases. where President Trump is, and this is what he's referring to, where he is correct on this one. There are areas where we actually don't have the capability here at home to immediately employ only Americans to do certain jobs. An example of this is... TSM, Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing company. They have set up. Now, I just was over in Taiwan, so this is top of mind for me. They have.

an absolutely critical role to play in the global technology ecosystem because they make 50% of all semiconductors, microchips, same thing, but 90% of the top end, the high end, the stuff you need for your smartphones, the stuff you need for top military applications and, you know, F-35 plane targeting systems or whatever, the most high-end, you know, supercomputers, AI stuff. The high-end chips, they are the ones that make them. They are the ones that are able to do so. And it is an incredibly complicated and intricate process, not just from the machinery perspective, but also from the people involved in operating those machines. This is why TSM has set up a large, they call them a fab, a fabrication facility. in Arizona and is going to be building that out more. But it is not possible anywhere in America right now for us to replicate what TSM is doing in Taiwan. So, and nor would we be able to operate what they're doing in Arizona on our own. So this is something where you do actually need to have very specialized workers in this area who are doing the stuff that we're talking about here. And by the way, this is also where... Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, stepped in to say, yeah, look, this is what Trump actually meant here. 20, 30 years, we have offshore precision manufacturing jobs. And the President's point here is, again, we can't snap our fingers and say, you're going to learn how to build ships overnight. We want to bring semiconductor industry back to the U.S. There are going to be big facilities in Arizona. I think the president's vision here is to bring in overseas workers where these jobs went. Who have skills? Who have the skills, three, five, seven years to train the U.S. workers. then they can go home, the U.S. workers fully take over. So do you understand the concern that people have, hey, an American can have that job, why you give it to a guy? But American can't have that job. So it's specific skills. Because we haven't built ships in the U.S. for years. We haven't built semiconductors. So this idea of overseas partners coming in, teaching American workers, then returning home, that's a home run. Okay. Exactly right. There are going to be some places where we have to do a training up, if you will, of that workforce to get them the capability to be able to do it here at home. Now, that's one part of this. But we got into this about a year ago. There was a very contentious exchange that was happening online involving Elon Musk.

and Vivek Ramaswamy and a number of people on X when it came to this issue of foreign workers in America and H-1Bs, H-1B visas are very much abused. And it is clear that they have been used by a lot of companies to do something that's really gross. You see, they underpay. They pay below market wages for some of these jobs. And you say, well, why are they able to do that? Well, they're able to do it because these individuals are tethered by their H-1B status to the company that sponsors them. So they can't just get up and go to some other company that easily. They have to stay where they are. And so that means they can be underpaid and also just not treated as well as they would be in other circumstances if they were Americans or permanent residence here. So that's one part of it. But the part of it that's really also very gross is that these companies know that there's another major incentive for people to be here on H-1Bs, and that is they can then use that as a pathway to try to get a green card, and they can then use that as a pathway to bring their whole family here. Chain migration. So there's a big incentive for H-1B individuals that isn't financial but is status-related to being here. And let me add, the rest of the American people are the ones who then are going to pay for that family when they get here, pay for their benefits, you know, deal with English as a second language challenges or all these different things. They socialize on the American people the costs of... the immigration advantage that they may have with this. And keep in mind, these aren't necessarily highly skilled individuals at all. There are people here on H-1Bs for very menial jobs, which is a complete abuse, a total abuse of the system that has been going on. And this is why there was such a pushback initially against what Trump said. Trump is right. There are areas where we do need. the H-1B visas that are currently here or highly specialized individuals who are here. But it's a very small component of the overall situation. It's a very small slice of the overall pie. And the whole pie is supposed to be that. So that's why it's even worse. It should be only special. H-1B should only be people doing jobs that we could not fill with Americans to do. And I would venture as just a guess less than 10% and maybe even less than 5% of the H1B visas that are here are individuals that would really be hard to find someone else in America to do that same job at that same level. It might be less than 1%. But it's definitely less than 10%. It is a very small percentage of the overall program. So this is why the program is a scam. It's a scam. And it should not be allowed to continue the way that it has been going on.

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migration into America or certainly a dramatic decline of legal. I'm talking legal now, migration to America for a while. This is one of these things where people get uncomfortable. Oh, what are you saying? I'm saying exactly what I'm saying, which is that to have a cohesive country, a nation where people are bound to each other by ties of kinship, by ideals, by... the basis, the foundational elements of a polity and of a society, we can't just be importing generally the third world into America millions and millions a year and see what happens. We're going to start to dissolve as a society if this continues on. And we need to really have that conversation. Now that the illegal immigration issue has gotten the attention that it needs. We need to be having a conversation about the legal immigration that has been happening here. We actually very much need to take a step back and allow this American experiment to have a little breathing room. This is what's always happened to the past. Historically what I'm saying has been the American norm. There is an opening in immigration for a while. We're taking a whole lot of immigrants. Great. Become part of the American experiment. Obeying our laws. And then we take a pause. For one reason or another, there's a pause. And then you allow assimilation to occur. And you also allow the dominant ethos in America to be infused into the new arrivals. And that is a very important, a very powerful process, and it needs to be happening here. We have changed the character and the people of America in the last 70 years, or no, 65, so 60 years, sorry, last 60 years, and certainly even in the last 30 years. Last 20 years more rapidly than at any time in history, bigger even than the days of Ellis Island and all that. And we have a massive welfare state that we're trying to fund with all this too, which is a big problem. We need to have a time out here. Now, for people that have extremely valuable skills, I mentioned the TSM workers, people that have extremely valuable skills that we need and that that's very apparent, yeah, of course, we still should have some, some. visas for temporary workers, some students that are allowed to come here. 600,000 Chinese, though, no, we do not need that. And we need to start thinking very seriously about the strategic impact on our country of educating our biggest adversary and allowing them not only to spy on this country, because that happens a lot on campuses. That's happening, okay? There are Chinese spies posing as students. That's real. and also to take back American know-how and ingenuity to their country to compete with us. That's another big problem, another big challenge that we need to address. So yeah, I think we should be willing to have the conversation about taking a step back and having a dramatic reduction for, I would say for the next decade at least, in legal immigration into this country.

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Republican politics I'd seen it a long time. It was very strange. This was a year ago, but I still remember it. I was actually on vacation when I saw it, so I didn't really get engaged online with it because I was trying to stay off Twitter, but I didn't see this and I read about it. We don't need non-Americans to make America great. We actually can make America great with just Americans. And we do have a culture of excellence here. It's why we're the greatest country in the world and no other country is anywhere near what we are in terms of our greatness. So I appreciate that we do not have to import other people. And JD Vance's point here is very powerful. We do not have to import other people so that we're able to achieve great things. There is no basis for that in our history, in fact. If you are to look at what we've been able to do, what we've been able to accomplish, it is overwhelmingly the case that... It has been Americans who have done the incredible things. It has been the Americans who have been changing the world that we live in today. I believe we're entering a once-to-a-century opportunity for Main Street investors. Over the next three years, President Trump is going to continue to free the markets from Washington red tape and job-killing regulations. We'll see life-changing stock market gains in defense, finance, health care, energy, so many areas. We're talking hundreds, maybe thousands of explosive opportunities as artificial intelligence transforms the U.S. economy. But here's the truth. Most Americans will miss out on grabbing the biggest fortunes. I don't want that to happen to you. That's why I've launched something brand new. an e-newsletter called Money and Power. For too long, insiders have locked the biggest opportunities behind closed doors, but now I'm busting it wide open to give you early looks at the wealth opportunities that are shaping America's future. I explain all the exciting details in an interview online. Go to offair 2025.com right now to check this out. Offair 2025.com paid for by Paradigm Press. Thanks for hang with me today, team. Shields high. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our warfighters, advances life-saving health care, combat cyber threats, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT. behind America's invisible advantage. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts Farmer's Market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprouts has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day-to-day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer, an in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need.

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