Trump Touts Pro-Migration Article Amid Voter Blowback on White-Collar Migrants
Neil Munro, Breitbart, January 9, 2025
President Donald Trump touted a pro-H-1B migration article on his TruthSocial account, despite the widening alarm from his pro-American voters that he will need in 2026.
Trump’s touted article was posted in many media outlets and said that H-1B white-collar migration is good for America’s investors, businesses, and big government:
This past weekend, President-elect Trump announced his support for expanding immigrant worker visas. He told the New York Post: “I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them.”
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It is clear that hardworking and entrepreneurial immigrants in combination with good old Yankee ingenuity is one of the greatest comparative advantages the United States has over nearly every other nation in the world — especially Communist China.I can’t think of a better way to make America great again.
However, Trump’s voters back him because they want to make Americans — not just America — great again.
Many fear that his support for more white-collar H-1B migration will push American graduates out of jobs, careers, innovation, and management of the nation’s technology companies. For example, WatersofBabylon, a Twitter account run by an American manager with a household-name company in Silicon Valley, wrote on January 8:
A recent VP promotion went to a guy everyone I know considered to be mediocre. But he was Indian, and his boss was Indian, and so the [Indian] mafia worked in his favor. I can remember one American getting a VP promotion under an Indian boss in my many years at this company, but only one. The only time I see Americans get promoted is when they work for one of the few American bosses left. This is how they take over the company.
Another national problem is that H-1B migrants damage innovation because they cannot act as dispassionate, outspoken, and productive U.S.-style professionals. They are passive because their hopes to win the deferred bonus of green cards depend on support from their Indian bosses and Indian colleagues. The submissive green card workforce cripples U.S. innovation and spurs many product failures at Theranos, Twitter, and other companies.
The growing Indian role in the U.S. technology sector also ensures that former H-1B workers are being promoted by company boards into CEO jobs, where they steer U.S. investment and jobs back to their home country rather than into the United States.
For example, Microsoft Corp’s Indian-born CEO is Satya Nadella. He is a former H-1B worker who is now promising India’s Prime Minister to train “10 million Indians in AI skills” over the next five years while also firing U.S. professionals.
In January, Google’s Indian-born CEO and former H-1B migrant, Sundar Pichai, promised more investment in India. “He pushed us to continue making in India, designing in India. We are proud to now make our Pixel phones manufactured in India,” Pichai told an Indian media outlet, according to the Times of India.
The Indian government is also pressuring U.S. CEOs to support the H-1B program as a price of being allowed into the Indian consumer market.
Many Indians proudly boast of their H-1B takeover of American businesses:
Also, a far greater number of migrant Indian and Chinese graduates have already used the H-1B program to take U.S. technology jobs back to their home countries, ensuring massive layoffs among U.S. graduates.
A rush of recent polls show that Americans expect Trump to establish a pro-American immigration policy, and show that pluralities of Republicans want less legal migration and less white-collar H-1B migration. For example, a January 8 poll by YouGov showed that 27 percent of Americans want the H-1B program to be reduced or eliminated, while only 17 percent want it increased. Among Republicans, 40 percent want to cut or eliminate the program, while only 12 percent want it to be expanded.
The poll also showed that 24 percent of Democrats and 24 percent of people who earn more than $100,000 want the program to be expanded.
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