00:00:00.000So, yesterday, the vice president said that Microsoft violated immigration employment law.
00:00:05.000So, here's what the vice president had to say.
00:00:07.000Thanks to an ongoing investigation, we have decided to suspend the PERM program for Microsoft, which means they will no longer be able to apply their, they'll no longer be able to take those H 1Bs and apply for permanent resident status within the United States of America.
00:00:24.000Now, our message to Microsoft and to any other foreign or domestic corporation is quite simple.
00:00:29.000We obviously want you to thrive in the United States of America, we want people to invest.
00:00:35.000So they suspended Microsoft from a program that allows H 1B visa holders to apply for green cards.
00:00:49.000So H 1B visa holders are people who come to the United States on a work visa.
00:01:11.000The action by Vance's anti fraud task force, he's claiming essentially these companies engaged in fraud, is targeting Microsoft, Adobe, and several tech recruiting companies over what officials have alleged are widespread abuses of the visa system.
00:01:24.000Vance said that no other company has abused the system more than Microsoft.
00:01:27.000They accused Microsoft of laying off U.S. citizens only to replace them with foreign workers brought into the country on H 1B visas.
00:01:33.000Okay, so number one, that is not a violation of the law.
00:01:47.000And so, suspending them from a program for doing that would be illegal, and Microsoft is going to sue.
00:01:53.000A Microsoft spokeswoman said the company plans to send the administration more information on what they are doing.
00:01:57.000She said the vast majority of their employees in the United States are American citizens, and that of the approximately 6,000 H1B visa applications it submitted in the last fiscal year, 80% were for people who are existing Microsoft employees.
00:02:09.000In other words, these are people who are just getting renewed for their H 1B visas.
00:02:12.000Rather than getting them a green card, you just get their H 1B renewed.
00:02:16.000Companies can employ somebody on an H 1B for a maximum of six years, and then they have to sponsor them for a green card to keep them.
00:02:24.000Now, when they apply for the green card under the PERM program, a company must perform a so called labor market test to ensure that no Americans are qualified to fill that job.
00:02:35.000Now, the Trump administration is alleging that the companies Basically fix the process.
00:02:39.000They rig it by advertising jobs for green card holders very narrowly.
00:02:42.000So they, they kind of game the system and they, they essentially put out a, a notice saying you need this extremely specific set of skills and no American can fill it.
00:02:52.000And if they provide evidence of that, that in fact is a violation of the law, but the vice president did not provide any evidence of that.
00:02:58.000He basically said that because Microsoft hires people on H1Bs and then fires people who are not on H1Bs, this amounts to some form of immigration fraud.
00:03:15.000And so he's conflating two programs the H 1B visa program and green card applications for people for whom there is no American replacement.
00:04:28.000Well, it meant the price on goods and services like cars went up.
00:04:32.000And then eventually it meant the only way to keep prices competitive was to make crappier cars.
00:04:36.000And then eventually Tokyo just ate our lunch.
00:04:38.000The Japanese just ate our lunch in the sixties.
00:04:42.000The general economic rule is that if you restrict the labor supply, major companies will end up offshoring.
00:04:47.000There is zero evidence that I'm aware of that H1B restrictions increase American employment and wages after you account for the offshoring of the jobs.
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00:05:59.000Now, the head of the Federal Trade Commission, Andrew Ferguson, who was there during this announcement, He said that America is not a jobs program for the rest of the world.
00:06:16.000Our rule of law, our system of sane and sound regulation, our capital markets, our justice system, everything that makes the American economy thrive, we did not build for the planet.
00:07:53.000So I've got a bunch of Indian American students, many second or maybe even third generation, presumably conservative oriented, getting an education, getting jobs, and assimilating.
00:08:02.000What would be the gigantic problem here?
00:08:05.000So I was asked about this in a bit of a different form yesterday.
00:08:08.000My question was regarding immigration.
00:08:11.000And I come from a small town in Texas where there are a lot of illegal immigrants from Mexico.
00:08:18.000And they largely fill, honestly, all of the jobs that.
00:08:24.000My dad's a rancher, and there's a lot of dirty, hot, messy jobs that he really only has success by hiring illegal immigrants that he would love to find somebody in town, but he just can't do it.
00:08:37.000So, I guess my question is what is your answer to the labor shortage?
00:08:41.000And if the illegal immigrants weren't here and there's not people that are willing to do these low wages?
00:08:46.000This is actually a phenomenal question.
00:08:48.000Okay, and then I basically gave that same explanation that I've been talking about right here.
00:08:53.000And the reality is that the laws of economics remain undefeated.
00:08:57.000What happens when we stop brain training the world?
00:08:59.000So the vice president was asked if you basically stop people from coming in to get jobs, how do you decide who gets in?
00:09:07.000How do you make it so that Elon Musk gets in?
00:09:10.000Now, it's one thing if you want to bring in a person like Elon Musk.
00:09:13.000I think 99% of American citizens look at somebody like Elon Musk or Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, and they say, obviously, if that person wants to come in and build something great in the United States of America, we support that.
00:09:26.000But If you're bringing in an accountant who's making $40,000 a year and you use that foreign indentured servant making $40,000 a year to replace an American worker who is making $70,000 a year, you're not bringing in a genius to build a great American corporation.
00:09:42.000You're committing fraud against the American people and against this visa program.
00:09:48.000And thanks to the work of this task force and, again, the empowerment of the president of the United States, we are doing something to stop it.
00:09:54.000So he says, if you're just coming in here to get paid $40,000 as an accountant, we don't want you here, but we definitely want Lisa Sue here.
00:10:08.000I'm going to give you three guesses what her parents did.
00:10:11.000Her father was a statistician for the city government, and her mother was an accountant.
00:10:17.000So it turns out that unless you have a magical wand and the ability to identify Lisa Su at age four, and you ban her parents, the accountants from coming into the country, you just don't get Lisa Su's.
00:10:29.000And the same thing is true of Yuan and Sergey and Jensen and Saigonadella and all of them.
00:10:34.000The same thing is true of all these things.
00:10:37.000Pretending away the problem doesn't make the problem go away.
00:10:40.000So the vice president is now blaming socialists for H 1B visas.
00:10:44.000Back in 2016, one of the most interesting things that happened is when Bernie Sanders, then of course the leading socialist in the United States of America, was asked about open borders, he gave an answer that sounded similar to Stephen Miller's, where he said, Of course, we're not going to have open borders because that's going to displace American workers.
00:11:03.000It is ironic that so many of the self described socialists running across this country, they love the idea.
00:11:09.000Of replacing American workers with foreign workers, which suggests to me it's really not about the working class, it's about their hatred of native born citizens.
00:11:16.000Okay, well, actually, a lot of the socialists are in favor of open immigration, not because they want them replacing American workers, but because they want them on American welfare and because they wish for them to vote for Democrats.
00:11:27.000As it turns out, actually, a bunch of socialists in, say, Scandinavia are very much interested in immigration restrictionism because they realize free donuts plus open door equals bankruptcy.
00:11:36.000So the vice president is in favor of massive government interventionism, up to and including taking stakes in private American companies.
00:11:43.000He has praised the economic plans of everyone from Elizabeth Warren to Lena Kahn.
00:11:47.000He was asked an awkward question yesterday about how he defines socialism since he is very much a government interventionist in the economy.
00:12:01.000You know, I guess it's honestly a hard term to define these days because very often socialism, you know, classically, you would think socialism is about prioritizing workers.
00:12:17.000And yet, in reality, I guarantee that most of the self-described socialists running across the United States of America are going to howl about this announcement today, which is prioritizing American workers over foreign workers.
00:12:28.000So I don't know what the term means anymore.
00:12:31.000I think in reality, what it actually means in the American context is that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers and you want boys to play in girls' sports.
00:12:39.000That's what unites the socialists that I see running across the United States of America today.
00:12:45.000It is a stupid belief that men are women, but it is not a particularly socialist belief that men are women.
00:12:51.000Definitionally, is an economic and political system in which the means of production, distribution, and major resources are owned or controlled by the public and the workers collectively rather than by private individuals.
00:13:05.000There are programs that are socialistic in nature because the government nationalizes them or gets involved, grants a monopoly.
00:13:13.000Heavy regulation of industry can be effectively socialistic because we don't have control over the dispensation of your property or control of your property because of regulation, the government effectively runs it.
00:13:22.000And here's the thing that's not going to win elections.
00:13:25.000You can't outbid Democrats when it comes to this stuff.
00:13:27.000You cannot outcompete socialists with socialism white.
00:13:30.000You can't just shout American jobs and American workers while the prices keep going up and the wages aren't keeping up and then hope that those slogans are going to make up for the negative outcomes that are outgrowths of policies that you pursue.
00:13:41.000Now, again, this doesn't mean that JD Vance is wrong on everything.
00:13:43.000The vice president made another announcement yesterday where he was right.
00:13:46.000So here he was going after universities for J1 visa fraud.
00:13:50.000I want to make one final announcement here because while we see a lot of H 1B visa fraud, we also see a lot of J1 visa fraud.
00:13:57.000And this is where some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners, again, to undercut the wages of American residents.
00:14:04.000Now, there are nine universities in particular that we believe merit an investigation.
00:14:10.000Those universities are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT.
00:14:18.000And what we see is that when you employ an American worker as a graduate student, as a researcher, they're making about $20,000 more than someone brought in under a J-1 visa.
00:14:29.000And importantly, these universities. are employing J1 visas for federally funded grants at a rate of about 61%.
00:14:52.000So F1 student visas is where a student from abroad wants to come to Harvard or something.
00:14:56.000And very often F1s turn into a pathway to employment or whatever.
00:14:59.000J1s are typically paid for by government funding or institutional funding.
00:15:03.000And J1s, unlike F1s, have a two-year return home requirement.
00:15:06.000So after you finish your education, you have to go home for at least two years, which means that the brain drain that I want, which is to take the smart people from other countries and make them American, that is a thing that doesn't really happen very often under J1s.
00:15:18.000It's one thing, by the way, to do that with our European allies, but a huge percentage of J1s come from, wait for it, China, like 25 to 35% of J1 visas at top institutions go to Chinese students.
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