Fox News anchor Rachel Campos-Duffy delivered an incisive critique of H-1B visas that sparked a debate between the tech world and the MAGA base over the last week.
Guest hosting Monday’s broadcast of “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Campos-Duffy explained how the well-intentioned visa program has been exploited by corporations for cheap foreign labor at the expense of the American worker.
“What does it mean to put America first? Many believe America is defined by our economic and military might, but America is more than that. It’s a physical place with people who share common history, traditions, and culture,” Campos-Duffy began.
Here’s my response to the #H1BVisa debate: What we’re witnessing isn’t the failure of American culture but the deliberate erosion of it — a demoralization campaign fueled by decades of mass immigration and an education system poisoned by cultural Marxism- a foreign & utterly… pic.twitter.com/amuCS0nAqP
— Rachel Campos-Duffy (@RCamposDuffy) December 31, 2024
“So how can we really be America first if our economy is putting American workers last? In the raging debate over the expansion of H-1B visa programs, Donald Trump’s DOGE generals, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, insist these work visas are essential for tech companies to succeed. Now these are competitive men, and I believe them when they say they just want America to win the global game against our adversaries.”
“The question is, what is your definition of winning? And at whose expense should the game be played? The H-1B policy was created to bring the best and the brightest to America and address labor shortages in specialized fields. It’s an argument that industry leaders have been making for years.”
Campos-Duffy went on to say that H-1B visas have been “wildly abused” by the corporate system to drive down labor costs by importing foreign workers en masse.
“These workers are willing to put up with lower pay, longer hours, and overall worse conditions, unable to leave their jobs without risking deportation because they want to become citizens and bring their families over through chain migration. These companies are creating a permanent underclass of foreign workers,” Campos Duffy said.
“It’s a rigged game designed to create cheap labor and make it impossible for American citizens to compete. This has been a problem for decades, and despite our leaders getting directly called out about it, they refuse to take action.”
She went on to excoriate Ramaswamy’s take on H-1B visas, in which he argued foreign workers were necessary because America’s culture “venerated mediocrity for decades.”
“American culture isn’t the issue. It’s the destruction of it that’s at the core of the problem. American culture gave the world electricity, airplanes, cars, Elvis, the Internet, Rocky Balboa, and Star Wars,” Campos-Duffy said.
“What we’re witnessing now isn’t the failure of American culture, but the deliberate erosion of it,” she continued. “A demoralization campaign fueled by decades of mass immigration and an education system poisoned by cultural Marxism, a foreign and utterly un-American ideology. Dissing prom queens and promoting America-last-visa policies won’t restore our greatness.”
It’s a distraction from the real issue, the dismantling of our national identity, the takeover of our schools by communists, and the devaluation of our labor. Sadly, we’re replacing American goodness with godlessness. Some of MAGA’s newest members envision a cold, tech, and corporate future for us, one that fails to appreciate the humanity and vulnerability of our own citizens.
Secularism, transhumanism, and AI will never satisfy the soul. America needs God, family, love, and a return to real, not virtual, relationships. According to the Constitution, we were promised a government that would provide for the common defense, promote general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for the people.
America is not a sports team, and winning in the stock market is not my definition of success for America. America First is not a slogan. It’s a guiding principle.
MAGA is about honoring our history and our Christian values. It’s about protecting our people, our families, and our way of life.
During Sunday’s “Fox & Friends,” she also argued President-elect Donald Trump’s sudden support of H-1B visas “left a lot of people confused” given his previous stance against the program.
Trump on Saturday said he has “always been in favor of [them]” — even though he actually ran on ending the visas to get elected in 2016.
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