Scrap The H-1B Visa

By A Former Border Patrol Agent

As the debate over H1Bs heats up, I’ll weigh in with my two cents. As a Border Patrol Agent, I didn’t run into too many of these visas. When we were doing transportation checks at buses and airports was usually the only time we would see them, not on the banks of the Rio Grande.

The CBP Officers who work at ports of entry were much more expert on these visas since they see them on a daily basis. It seemed to me like the H-1B visa holders we did run into were always trying to change their status to get Green Cards. This happened over and over again. Once they get that Green Cards, they are no longer counted as an H1B, so, it makes the program look like there are fewer of them than there actually are. Also, due to spouses getting H1Bs too, the whole family can come to America. Once here, drop an anchor baby and wait for the free bag of goodies to start coming.

American Renaissance had a recent good article by an Indian detailing how horrible India is: India: It’s Worse Than You Think, December 20, 2024. Americans in general seem to romanticize the foreigner and don’t realize that the immigrant brings their dysfunction with them.

I can remember investigating one Indian restaurant owner who forced another Indian migrant to pay him rent because the second Indian had a food stand on the public sidewalk in front of his restaurant. It was totally illegal (the restaurant owner didn’t own the sidewalk), but it was enforced like a Mafia boss would do.

Another time, I remember talking to an Indian engineer who was working as a truck driver. He had come in on an H-1B to work at an automotive plant (GM, I think), but then left once he got his Green Card. I was a little shocked that he preferred working as a truck driver to being the engineer he was supposedly trained to do. However, I’ve come to find out that in a lot of foreign cultures owning your own business is placed in much higher esteem than working for someone else. So, this Indian was trying to start his own trucking company.

Thank God Vivek Ramaswamy didn’t get closer to the presidency than he did. He talked a good game, but did he actually believe in any of it? Vivek talked of gutting the H-1B visa while campaigning for President himself., but he has since reversed himself completely... Watching Great Britain from across the pond, it wasn’t a surprise that Rishi Sunak only wanted to reduce illegal immigration. He still wanted to continue replacement migration, but just do it legally..

In the end, Indians will protect Indians. This shouldn’t be a surprise. When Ann Coulter appeared on Vivek’s Truth Podcast, she told him she wouldn’t vote for him because he was Indian.

She should have elaborated by pointing out what Rishi did (or did not do) on immigration in Britain. It’s why if I were a Brit, I wouldn’t trust Suella Braverman either even if she says the right things on one day.

The H-1B visa fight may well divide the GOP. The GOP is undergoing a transformation from being the party of Big Business to a party that supports the American middle class. With that are a lot of growing pains. Immigration patriot Stephen Miller stands on one side of the divide against Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. I’ve always liked Stephen Miller and I hope he doesn’t cave in to the billionaires.

One place I like to go to for immigration information is the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS.org). Mark Krikorian of CIS has an article up at the Compact in which he tries to make peace between the two sides of the immigration debate: Where the Tech Right and Restrictionists Can Agree . December 26, 2024.

Recall, though, that the large majority of Trump supporters don’t just want the level of legal immigration to stay the same—they want it reduced. The obvious win-win, then, is to eliminate the chain-migration categories and the visa lottery and reallocate, say, half of those visas to the current skilled categories. This would result in both an increase in the number and share of new immigrants chosen for their skills and a reduction in the overall level of immigration.

Legislation such as Sen. Tom Cotton’s RAISE Act would have done just this, and it was endorsed by President Trump during his first term. Getting a significant number of tech figures on board for such an approach would represent a real change from the past, when IT lobbyists were joined at the hip with those pushing for amnesty and increased family-based immigration.

Unfortunately, Trump doesn’t seem to be on board with it this time around.

Finally, if you have the time to watch it, Michelle Malkin, author of Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction? and co-author of Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers had a good investigative report from four years ago in which she showed that not only was the H-1B Visa bad for American tech workers, it destroyed diversity, and increased security risks. After watching her report, it left me wanting to see the whole program scrapped. It shows that a lot more Americans have lost their jobs due to the H-1B visa than the oligarchs would have you believe.

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P.S. There have been studies showing that conservatives tend to be more attractive than liberals on average. Michelle Malkin certainly proves that, but so too does Sara Blackwell, the founder of “Protect US Workers”.

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