Ryun on H-1B Visas: Billion-Dollar Corporations Hire Foreign Workers Under Market Wages Instead of Paying American Workers Full Wages

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
CAMPOS: “President-Elect Trump supporting Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy after the two-backed h 1b visas for foreign workers telling the New York Post “I’ve always liked the visas. I’ve always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them. I have many visas on my property. I’ve been a believer. I’ve used it many times. It’s a great program.” Our next guest is not sold on Trump’s claiming. Joining us now is American majority founder and CEO Ned Ryun. Well, a lot of confusion around this , because as you know, ned, first of all welcome and happy new year.”

RYUN: “Thank you.”

CAMPOS: “As you know, Donald Trump had a lot of criticisms for this program and said there were a lot of abuses of it. Elon Musk is now come out, Vivek Ramaswamy, and now Donald Trump told the New York Post this. So what is your take?”

RYUN: “Well my take is the entire conversation started around increasing the number of h 1b visas which was precisely the wrong place to start a conversation and expanding what is a broken and abused system and I think a lot of people can acknowledge the h 1b visa system is broken and abused. Elon posted some things last night that be a nice starting point that you have to significantly raise the minimum salary and then add an annual cost to these h-1b visas to maintain them. I think we have to get to the point Rachel where we make it expensive to have an h-1b visa to focus on having those truly exceptional people come in and use them, but Rachel, I think the thing has to be, the thing that has to be discussed is the fundamental issues around this whole entire debate is that America fundamentally is not an economic zone. We’re not some global store front. Americans should not be treated as second class citizens in their own country because federal policy allows billion dollar corporations to hire foreign workers under market wages instead of paying American workers full wages, so if we can start to frame the conversation that way and understand the system is broken, it needs to be reformed, and the American people should actually be prioritized in all things that is really the message of America first. Rachel: its always been Donald Trump’s message which is why I think some people are a little confused by that statement.”