My Take On The H1B Immigration Debate ROCKING MAGA World

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immigration culture and some tough love here today. What a big MAGA rift. Yeah, there’s a big MAGA rift taking place and you’re watching it transpire on X and other places where again, who is the true MAGA and who is this and anti-immigration. It’s gotten pretty brutal, quite frankly. It really has.

Well, I’m going to put it to bed today. I want to start off on a read to you if you’re not familiar here. I’m going to I’m just going to give you Vivek’s post on X. I think we addressed Elon’s last week. He said the reason top tech companies often hire foreign born and first generation engineers over Native Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit, a lazy and wrong.

explanation. A key part of it comes down to the c-word culture. We’ll get into that a little bit. Tough questions demand tough answers and if we’re really serious about fixing the problem we have to confront the truth. Agree wholeheartedly. Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long.

at least since the 90s and likely longer. That doesn’t start in college. It starts young. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad champ or the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best engineers. Little bit of a problem with this sentence from Vivek and this point that he makes. Prom queen, yeah.

Yeah, okay, all right, it’s a beauty contest, whatever. I’ve long said here on the program that schools need to not only compete against one another on the athletic field, but also academically. Again, this is some of my ideas that I put forth into reforming schools, giving parents school choice. They allow kids school choice when they wanna play football for a different coach in high school somewhere, but.

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You’re not going to allow a kid to change schools because their physics department is better. Their science is better. That’s stupid. And he’s right there. But again, he talks about the jock over the val of Victorian, both things, both things can be true here. Vivek, um, in the sense that one can be a jock and also do well in school and the work time and effort that it takes to be great.

at a sport translates to the real world. Translates to the real world. It’s not just about winning on the field. It’s what you learned preparing for that game Friday night. That’s what translates. But anyway.

And he talks about a culture that venerates Corey from Boy Meets World, and I’m not familiar with these shows. Or Zack and Slater over Screech and Saved by the Bell. Or Stephen, Steve Urkel. I remember Family Matters, but I never watched any of these shows. Those are not, he’s basically pointing out certain characters, they’re not gonna produce the best engineers. More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of Friends, more math tutoring, fewer sleepovers.

More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons, more books, less TV, more creating, less chilling, more extracurriculars, less hanging out at the mall. Couldn’t agree more.

couldn’t agree more. Again, okay, I little problem with what he said there. But the collective freak out by certain maga types here, by what Vivek had to say, and again, they start attacking. They start attacking his heritage, for some reason, which again, makes you small. Hey, you know, small minded, quite frankly, and vile, in my opinion.

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Most normal American parents look skeptically at those kinds of parents. More normal American kids view such those kinds of kids with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve. That’s true.

That’s true. You go out there and you, you I don’t want to be normal. I want to be better. I want to excel. This is now close your eyes and visualize which families you knew in the nineties or even now who raised their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest. Normalcy doesn’t cut it in a hyper competitive global market for technical talent.

And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China. This can be our Sputnik moment. We have waken from slumber before, and then we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once prioritizes achievement over normalcy, excellence over mediocrity, nerdiness over conformity, hard work over laziness.

That’s the work that we have cut out for us. Rather than wallowing in victimhood or just wishing or legislating alternative hiring practices into existence, I’m confident we can do it.

What in God’s creation is so wrong, so offensive to you? What is so offensive?

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What, because he’s got dark skin and he’s got Indian heritage? You don’t wanna hear it from him? Is what he said, he’s not wrong? I get it, I get it. Yeah, it’s the H-1B visas. That’s why our kids are not doing so well. John LaFever put this out. And again, this is part of the problem. This is part of the problem with many.

of the super maga types. can’t have more than one idea going on in their head at one point in time. Okay? You do realize that more than one thing can be true at the same time. Let me give you an example. Okay? It can be sunny out and raining in Florida. Both of those things can be true. They’re just, you know.

Not just Florida, can happen in many other places. Anyway, the H1B program, is it being exploited?

to the detriment of American workers. Yes, that’s true. There’s no doubt about that that’s true and it needs to be reformed. All you, I gotta get rid of it right away. I’m gonna see how many people said, okay, is the Medicare program being abused here in the United States? It is. You want me to, you wanna shut it down tomorrow?

What I can’t give me one government program. Give me one government program. That’s abused misused Our damn Pentagon can’t pass an audit on any given year. So you want to just you want to dismantle the military tomorrow? It needs to be fixed. There’s no doubt about that But it shouldn’t be done away with What we need

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are the top engineers and the top people staying here and wanting to come and work here in this country. This whole idea, I know, I know, I’m take American jobs.

No, no, I’ll get into the logistics of engineering and H1B visas a little bit. Yeah, yeah, the H1B program needs to be fixed. There’s no doubt about it. It’s been exploited. We’ve covered it here. There’s still things that took place at Disney. There were multiple companies as well that have done the same exact thing.

Quite frankly, I would just like to do away with the whole visa program and she will not go change it I want these people to be citizens. You want these people to come here again make them Citizens they want to be here. Let them assimilate Why do you want to send them away if they’re gonna offer something down the road? It doesn’t make any sense and don’t even get me started on the visa program H2B visa program that helps countless businesses

around the country staffing in the summer in a various different ways. You know how hard it is to find workers? got small business owner clients all around the country. They can’t find workers. You know, it’s also true here in this country. Many Americans don’t want to get off their ass. They don’t. They don’t want to get off their butt.

I put in a call, I need an electrician to come out to my house to install a generator at my house. Everyone I called, you’re talking 60 days out before they’re gonna even show up.

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Don’t tell me we don’t need workers here in this country. Okay? There’s a lot of jobs that quite frankly, Americans just won’t do. I’m gonna pay enough, right, sure. Yeah, electricians and plumber, they don’t make any money, right. Anyway.

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We need to seal and protect our borders. All of the Biden-era illegals who we didn’t met, most of them, most of them need to go. We need to start deporting right away. We need to know who’s here. We know who really wants to be here. We gotta stop the nonsense where people are coming in and just sending money back to their home countries.

We have not been very good for a very long period of time at growing.

growing talent in a…

in a meritocratic way. And that’s what we need to get back to as well. But also true that we shouldn’t be demonizing going after immigrants, hard working immigrants that have come here that have started businesses that have created jobs here in this country. These things can all be true.

Channel Ryan from, she’s a host at, I said, on OAN, and she basically put it this way. She said, you’re offended?

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You’re offended by what Vivek Ramaswamy said? You’re basically DEI.

You are, you’re just against DEI. You’re basically DEI and affirmative action. What he’s going after, what he’s going after is what has happened, what has happened to this country for decades now that I personally, not just here on the show, in my everyday life, my interactions with kids and coaching have gone after the whole

Everybody wins. Everybody wins. We’re not keeping score. That nonsense. That bull excrement. That Marxist crap that has creeped into our schools. Schools, no, we’re not going to have a valedictorian anymore. We don’t want to offend anybody. That humanist crap.

That has to go. That has to go. Anyway, let give you another example of this. Where I moved from on Long Island. It’s a very desirable place for people to live and talk about it. More and more people moving into our neighborhoods from Flushing, Queens.

Now Flushing, Queens has been predominantly a Asian area in Queens for a period of time. These were immigrants that came to this country legally, started businesses, a myriad of different businesses, saved their money, what’s best for their kids, and are now moving out to these areas that are well established.

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I’ve got no problem with that at all. That’s the American way. Lower East Side, what do you think? This hasn’t happened before? Those Asian Americans, because they speak maybe broken English, are they any less American than myself? I was born here.

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I was born here, but it didn’t make him any less American than anybody else. Being American, it’s not, your family, but you’re not more American if your parents, parents, excuse me, your parents were born here or your great, great, great grandparents came off on a damn Mayflower for crying out loud. Doesn’t work that way. We’re not vampires, okay? You don’t become a stronger American the longer you have been here. And quite frankly,

But anyway, I’ve said this before here on the program about America and American citizenship. I think they should make it almost like Catholic confirmation for crying out loud. Where you get to choose. Yay, you got all these kids there. Oh, they hate America, all this stuff. Okay. You want to give up your passport? I’ve said it here. I don’t think you should be allowed to vote unless you can pass a citizenship test.

You don’t want to be an American. You don’t want to take an oath of citizenship. Maybe make kids do it when they’re 18 years old and make them pass a citizenship test. Because you were born here. Like you’re owed something because you’re born here. No, no. would say President John F. Kennedy, you know, asked not what your country can do for you, but what you can do.

for your country. wanna talk a little bit about culture now. America, what does America mean to you? Again, this things we’ve talked about here on the program in the past. is to me, it’s always been kind of like the movie Gladiator, when they talk about Rome being an idea.

America is an idea.

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That’s what it is. To me, that’s what America is. It’s most certainly not Washington, D.C. It’s not the tax code. It’s not the federal registry. None of those things. It’s not the shape of our country because the shape of our country, it was a hell of a lot different when this place started.

It’s changed. 13 colonies, right?

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And quite frankly, you got the Declaration of Independence and we hold these truths to be self-evident. All men are created equal. How often do we talk about this? Okay, we’re not all equal in talents and abilities, but we’re equal under the law. Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Again, that came first.

And then, you know, for took us some time, we figured out, geez, you know what, we got to come up and get the Constitution, which again, set of ideas. That’s what this country is about. It’s again, it’s not about a geographic area by any stretch of the imagination. There’s a great writer online calls himself cynical, pooh, we have sent. actually talked.

about this as well, something that I reiterate all the time.

America is unique in the history of the world as a country based solely on ideas without regard for ancestry or ethnicity or race or religion or soil or money or blood. If you come to America legally, become a citizen legally, and genuinely swear to support and defend those ideas, you are every bit as much an American

as someone who can trace their heritage back to the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. He says that’s a hill he’s willing to die on.

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And I agree.

And I agree. Let’s talk a little bit about this American culture. Guess again, we always hear that word American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism. there’s gonna be, again, gonna be quite a few obscure references today. And I just thought of one. I thought about the scene in Stripes with Bill Murray.

and his talking about America being mutts. Now we’re mutts here in this country, but we’re loyal and we’re tough and we’re this. Yeah, that’s what we are. Let me tell you what one of our attributes is. And this is an underlying belief system of mind that it goes into everything that we do in regards to building portfolios.

into how I want to raise my kids and how quite frankly you should be raising yours. Okay, I talk about anti-fragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Again, one of my opinion, one of the most brilliant guys here in this country who also came here originally on an H1B visa.

visas and Failure and all sorts of stuff. Well first and foremost, okay, just so you know just so you know as far as science and technology They are and talib addresses this they are so fat-tailed 80 % of the output and those industries comes from less than 1 % of the contributors You do understand that right? You got super

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skilled people. That’s a tiny percentage of employment. Okay. And again, I’ve worked on Wall Street and a myriad of businesses that I mean, we always talk about 10 % 10 % of your people doing the bulk of the work, I guess, in science and technology. It’s, it’s much different than that. It’s, it’s that minuscule how many people get ahead. But the key here to this country, what part of American exceptionalism, okay.

We have something in our water here?

We have, you know, we special in any way, shape, matter or form. Like I said, our…

Makeup, okay, our physical makeup, our physical attributes are no better. We’re not superhuman here, okay? We’re not a bunch of Kryptonians, all right? It’s just not the case. It is what American exceptionalism is all about is it’s okay to fail.

I talked about we don’t have an entrepreneurs day here in the United States. That truly is our edge.

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Our edge is the fact that it’s okay. It’s okay to fail. Talib talked about this well. He anybody, any idiot can have an education. You need to learn to fail. And he put this in his book, The Black Swan. Again, highly recommend it. Talked about scalability globalization. He says, whenever you hear a snotty,

and frustrated European middle brow presenting his stereotypes about Americans. Again, this is Nicholas Nassim Taleb. He was born in Lebanon. He came here, H1B visa. He’s a professor. He’s written countless bestselling books. Genius when it comes to risk management. He’s just as American as I am. Wasn’t born here. Anyway.

When he talks to you again, European middle brow presenting his stereotypes about Americans, he will often describe them as uncultured, unintellectual, and poor in math. Because unlike his peers, Americans are not into equation drills and the constructions middle brow call high culture, knowledge of gold’s inspirational trip to Italy or familiarity with the Delft School of Painting.

Yet the person making these statements is likely to be addicted to his iPad, wear blue jeans, use Microsoft Word to jot down his cultural statements on his Macintosh, using some Google searches as well.

Well, it just so happens that America is currently far, far more creative than these nations of museum goers and equation solvers. It also is far more tolerant of bottom up tinkering and undirected trial and error. And globalization has allowed the United States to specialize in the creative aspect of things, the production of concepts and ideas. That is,

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the scalable part of the products. And increasingly by exporting jobs and separate the less scalable components and assign them to those happy to be paid by the hour, there’s more money in designing a shoe than actually making it. Let’s, me take this a bit further, comes to failure. Went to a hockey game.

the other night and it was a conversation that was coming up because watching hockey, it’s it’s one of the best sports to watch live. It’s phenomenal to watch. And having the conversation with the most difficult sport is, and I was like, define difficult. Define difficult. Soccer players run 10 miles over the course of the game. You take a look at what,

Professional football players able to what you know the skill and the strength and a stamina that’s involved in hockey But then again, you also take a look at the most difficult thing to do in all sports and that’s you know hit a baseball and They call America, know baseball America’s pastime and Some will say well, you know football’s taken over. Yeah, I get that. Okay, it has but

Baseball, one of the reasons baseball’s such a difficult game is because you fail all the time.

You are an all-star making millions upon millions of dollars a year playing professional baseball if you fail seven out of 10 times. That’s right, you’re batting 300.

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If you fail, and again, and you’re right out there, okay? When you fail in baseball, it’s, know, you’re all by yourself up there.

You’re all by yourself. You gotta think about that. Again, that’s part of baseball. It’s just the psyche of being able to let it go.

I Yankees lost the World Series. What was it? It was a game one of the World Series. Gave up the home run there, came in, boom, yep, done, over. That’s on you, you’re all out there by yourself.

And that’s again, that’s what makes America great in our system here is that we want you to go out and take risks and you’re going to fail and failure is okay. And we, we talk, you know, get knocked down, pick yourself up. That great monologue from Rocky. What was it? Rocky five, a rocky six. He’s lecturing his kid.

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It’s not, know, it’s how hard you can get hit. You get knocked down, you pick yourself up. That’s, that’s American exceptional. That separates us from everybody else. Doesn’t work that way and other places around the globe. All I want to talk. Okay. Now we’re to talk about tough love time for some tough love. did, immigration culture.

Now time for some tough love and getting back to some of the things that Vivek had to say. These numbers are real, okay? 98 % of Gen Z kids there experience burnout at work. 23 % face unmanageable stress. 48 % feel drained.

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I’m laughing because, you know, I, again, I’ve been coaching for years and you watch kids complain, whatever it may be. I it up. Buttercup. Yeah. I got a whole can. I got a whole can of suck it up here for you. Are you kidding me? Really? Six in 10 employers report firing recent Gen Z hire. 75 % of companies said Gen Z hires were unsatisfactory.

39 % lack communication skills, 46 % lack professionalism.

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Okay, um Tell you something, okay We’re doing this to ourselves We’re doing this to ourselves. Um, do you think the immigrant kids are acting like this? They’re not 31 of eighth graders are proficient in reading 30 are below basic readers, which is basically functionally illiterate

27 % of 8th graders are proficient. 27 % of 8th graders are proficient in math. Hey, all you maga types out there! Hey, you’re gonna have them designing computers? I think so!

Our education system is a disaster here.

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We talk about the helicopter parents, but he’s making life way, way too easy for their kids.

hard work driving your kids. It’s not abusing your child. It’s preparation for life.

You know, excellence and bust in your ass is it’s non-negotiable.

Non-negotiable in my book again, I’m using myself as an example. I don’t care my show One of the things when I’m coaching, okay, I’m aware okay that Kids are gonna make mistakes Okay Balls gonna get dropped gonna miss shots Whatever it may be that that’s gonna happen as physical mistakes are going to happen

Mental mistakes, again, that’s something that’s a little bit harder as a coach to swallow. You’re supposed to be sharp out there. You have to focus while you’re out there. But the thing for me that is not negotiable is effort.

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You’re not busting your ass, not going 100 miles an hour all the time when you’re out there in the field, you’re coming off the field. Drop a ball, miss a shot, something goes wrong, next play, don’t worry about it. This is the Chris Markowski coaching line. I want you guys to go out there and make fast mistakes, because you’re going to make mistakes. Make fast mistakes, go hard all the time. It’s okay to fail.

as long as you’re going at it at 110 % effort.

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Again, what have we been preaching here on the program? Build, create, protect, and teach. And as adults, guess what? You better be exceptional yourself.

You better be exceptional yourself as an example.

Stop going soft.

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Anyway, again, a couple more obscure references for you. was a television show, I don’t know how old it was, was Aaron Sorkin program and we’ve played the clip here on the program, it Jeff Daniels was an anchor man and he goes off on this rant talking about America and he lists all these things. He know, America’s not the greatest country.

Anymore it’s kind of how they started off the show And again, they come into my mind. I was jotting some down It’s Chris Rock Chris Rock and a stand-up skit. mean this is a while ago Talking about you know kids coming back home Doing the right thing You know getting their master’s degree. will you my master now like it’s it’s some you know

going out and trying to excel is not a good thing. And I also thought about John Adams in the television, the mini series, John Adams, which was on HBO, it was fantastic. There was a scene where he was in France, he was at a French aristocratic court and you’re looking at the decadence and the partying and all these fancy people and their faces all make up and wigs on and they asked John Adams,

in that scene about, you know, if he’s gone to see the opera or listen to some music and he’s like, no, I really don’t have time for that. And they’re all giggling and laughing and kind of having fun with John Adams. He’s like, I don’t have time for that. I only have time. I only have time for politics and war. So that my kids can have the ability to study mathematics and philosophy.

So their kids can have the ability to study navigation, commerce, and agriculture. So maybe their kids can have the right.

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to study poetry and art and music. And that scene always stuck in my mind. And yeah, we can have the right to study all these things and whatnot. And there’s nothing wrong with any of that, but maybe our focus needs to go back to the basics again.

and that politics and war, but certainly mathematics, nothing wrong with throwing philosophy in there. Construction, agriculture, all of these things. We want to have, what we should be striving for is an anti-fragile country. Everyone out there so damn fragile, no one’s willing to think. And when someone’s trying to take something away from them.

these terrible immigrant, please, please, legal immigration, come on, built the place, just that simple, and there’s nothing wrong with it. Nothing wrong with having people come here legally the right way and having a system set up, and we should be doing that. There’s nothing wrong with any of that.

There was another comedian had the clip sent to me. His name is Ronnie Chang. And he did this entire bit about, you know, these people out there, know, I’m willing to die for my country. I’m going to die for my country. It’s like, OK, that’s great. But how about, you know, you’re willing to die for your country. How about you’re willing to do your homework?

for your country. How about you’re willing to do your math homework for the country? He kind of ended a comedic bit. He’s like, yeah, but dying is easy. Math is hard.

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Anyway, we don’t need to divide us in what Vivek and Elon are doing to immigrants, to this country that have excelled.

is a little bit of tough love. A little bit of tough love. That’s all we need. I mean, the numbers don’t lie. There’s nothing wrong with kicking kids in the ass a little bit and getting them to do the things that they need to do and getting this country to doing the things that we need to do.

The idea that we should be handed everything, you’re entitled to some, that word entitlement, I’m amazed at how many MAGA types out there, the entitlement mentality that they have, just as bad as a Democrat. It’s like you’re owed something. You’re owed some high paying job. You’re an old damn thing. You have the right to go out and earn it. Go out there and do it. Make your way in the world.

Easiest thing in the world. Point your, your victimhood, okay, your situation and blame somebody else. You want to grow up? Stop placing blame. Grab ownership of everything that happens to you and your life. Watchdog on wallstreet.com.