Natalie Winters (43:51)
And that's the Government Accounting Accountability Office. So that's not, you know, crazy right wing data. And when you, when you look at what the share of foreign versus native born workers are in the IT sector now, over half of all STEM and IT jobs are going to people who are born outside of the country. And when you look at this, I mean these corporations save on average, you know, around $20,000 per employee when they're outsourcing. And you see these CEOs taking, you know, $1.3 million in the case of, I believe the company, some energy company, Northeast Utilities, after they're laying off 200Americans. And when you look at what the statute was, right, in the 1990s, it was under 100 words. That was what created this program. Now it's up to 7,000 words, 20 pages. That's how you get the Alphabet soup of visa categories like the OPT program. And when you look at the numbers, it's quite staggering. Opt, right, which is this kind of weird pseudo student to job pipeline. It was 24,000 in 2007, it's now 194,000 in 2024 with 48% of those people coming from India. And if you start really looking into the future, if you take the same relative rate of growth of foreign born workers versus native born workers, which is 3.2% annual growth in the share itself. Using that compounding assumption, if you project that into the Future, in only 30 years 50% of the entire workforce will be foreigners. In 42 years it'll be 70%. Obviously these aren't hyper realistic. Domestic native born Americans are always going to have jobs. But at this rate it would only take 52 years for the workplace to be 100% foreign born. And like I said, the original cap was 65,000 people a year. You look at by the 2015, we already passed into the 200 thousands of people. And that's not even including overstays. That's newly added. And when you look at 2024, for example, there was 780,884 H1B petitions. Granted, that is a 1100% increase over what the American people were allegedly sold, even using fake data. And I think the point is why I find that clip so funny. It's not just the typical argument that we make here, which is that it's not an immigration policy, it's a shareholder policy. It's for these corporations that hate this country. It's not about talent, it's about replacing Americans. But to say that our opposition to H1B visas, which demonstrably depressed the wages of Americans, is rooted in white nationalism, is patently absurd. America does not have a white nationalism problem. If anything, we have an Indian nationalism problem because upwards of 70% of all H1B visas are going to people from India. We have a Mexican nationalism problem when it comes to illegal immigration because they're all coming from Mexico. And we have a, I don't know, I guess a Chinese nationalism problem in our universities because the majority of those visas are going to Chinese people. So to say that our opposition, the idea of defending American workers is rooted in some obsession with white identity. It's not. But on the other hand, if America turns in to being filled by 100% Indians, then it's not exactly America. And you know what makes I think MAGA really upset is being lectured by someone whose parents were immigrants to this country. Which, that's, that's fine. I'm sure they did it the right way. They probably came on an H1B visa. But I don't want to be told what being an American is by someone who, like, has barely been an American for more than, I don't know, a few decades. And it's that. That puts a bad taste in my mouth. Being told that I'm not allowed to raise my voice and say, actually we should make sure that our government isn't screwing over American workers by replacing them with people who, yeah, get diplomas and degrees from fake universities. It's all a scam. They're paid slave wages and they're not the best and brightest. Okay, you can point me to one person who started a company. Good for you. There's a lot of Americans. And Steve, I think the most upsetting thing, which I think the audience probably shares with that clip, which they should watch the whole thing. It's this idea of betting against Americans, betting against white kids, betting certainly against white men. You know what, you don't need to go down the list past every ethnicity to hit a white person. There are a lot of white people who are capable of being valedictorians too. And you know what, Hasan Minhaj, look at President Trump's victory in 2024. He made massive strides winning over the minority, whatever words you want to call it, vote with people who were drawn to economic nationalism. And I just find that interview, that segment, first of all, so reductive and so low iq, but so weirdly racist by saying that I'm the racist for not being an Indian supremacist and saying that I think a visa program that's exploiting American workers and turning this country into a hollowed up shell of its culture is something that's wrong and that should not be continued. And that we should, I don't know, put American workers first. American defined as people who, yeah, maybe have a little bit of heritage or legacy in this country and didn't just arrive 15 minutes ago.
