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7 people · 32 quotes · 22 Jun 2024 to 25 Aug 2026
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Gurley reports Trump proposed at Business Roundtable solving how to get companies more talented workers.
“They said it was the first time they ever heard him say, and I gotta solve the problem for everybody in this room, how I get you more talented workers.”
Gurley reports Trump proposed automatic green cards for anyone completing a four-year US degree.
“And he proposed something apparently at the roundtable. He said, anybody who comes here for a four year education completes their degree in The United States, we're gonna give them a green card.”
Gerstner links job loss fears from AI to anti-immigration sentiment as predictable response.
“You're a driver, you lose your job to autonomous driving. You know, go through the list, and we're gonna see a lot of this. Right?”
Lutnick proposes selling 400,000 green cards at $5 million each would generate $2 trillion and eliminate the deficit.
“Do realize if we sold those 400,000 a year for 5,000,000 each? You know, that's $2,000,000,000,000 every time. 2,000,000,000,000. We'd have no budget deficit. We could lower taxes on America.”
Lutnick announces gold card program launching in two weeks with Elon building the software.
“About two weeks from today, it goes out. Okay. Elon's building me the software right now. Yeah. Right. And then out it goes.”
Rowan argues the U.S. cannot be a low-cost manufacturing center without massive immigration.
“To the extent we do not want massive amounts of immigration, we are not going to be the low cost manufacturing center for low value goods.”
Gurley notes 50% of AI researchers are Chinese-origin and China now leads in AI patents, questioning immigration restrictions.
“some people say 50% of AI researchers are of Chinese origin. And I believe now the patent count in AI coming out of China is larger than The US.”
Gerstner cites study showing 40-50% of top US AI researchers are Chinese.
“I saw a study that suggested that 40 to 50% of the AI researchers in The United States, our best researchers are Chinese.”
Vance claims Tim Walz pardoned a convicted child rapist to prevent his deportation from the United States.
“Do remember Tim Waltz? Caught wind. And you know what he did? He pardoned the guy. He pardoned a literal child rapist to prevent him from being deported out of The United States Of America.”
Vance argues Democrats prioritize child predators, fraudsters, and foreign gang members over American taxpayers.
“Whether it's child predators, Somali fraudsters, foreign gang members, or even visa fraudsters who are working to undercut American wages and steal from American taxpayers, the Democrats know who they stand for.”
Vance claims an incoming Democratic congresswoman wants to abolish prisons, police, and borders.
“One incoming democrat congresswoman wants to abolish prisons, she wants to abolish police, and she wants to abolish the borders.”
Vance claims closing the border required only a new president, not new legislation.
“But as we've learned over the past eighteen months, it didn't require a new law to close down that border. It just required a new US president.”
Vance says the administration told corporations to train and hire Americans before seeking foreign workers.
“And what we did is we told American corporations that if you wanted new workers, you gotta start by training and hiring your own countrymen.”
Vance claims all net job growth in the past eighteen months went to native-born Americans, reversing a four-year trend.
“Do you know that all net job growth over the past eighteen months went to native born Americans, reversing a trend for four years where it all went to other people?”
Vance quotes Wall Street Journal editorial writer linking free trade and capital movement to free movement of labor.
“He said someone who believes, this is a quote, in the free trade and free movements of capital, they declared, will quite naturally believe in the free movement of labor.”
Vance argues worker replacement by foreign labor was the desired outcome of American elites, not an accident.
“Being replaced by foreign workers, in other words, it was not an accident, my friends. It was the desired outcome of a generation of American elites.”
Vance describes American workers being forced to train their foreign replacements before losing their jobs.
“In other cases, American workers didn't just have their jobs destroyed, they got told they were being replaced by a foreign worker, and then they had to train that worker before they got replaced.”
Vance recounts Kevin Flanagan, a programmer told to train his foreign replacement to receive severance in 1987.
“And the business, the bank, they told him, you're only gonna get your severance package if you trained a foreign replacement to do your job instead.”
Vance recalls a media anchor dismissing Venezuelan gangs taking over 'only one or two' apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado.
“And the anchor comes back and says to me, she says, well, they've only taken over one or two apartment complexes.”
Vance characterizes the old consensus as prioritizing corporate profits and foreign workers over citizens.
“What we really needed, they told us, was just to juice the short term profits of a few big corporations. We needed to open that border and prioritize foreign workers over our own citizens.”
Vance accuses politicians of cheering corporate raiders who offshored jobs or hired illegal aliens.
“They would cheer on the corporate raiders as they slashed headcount and shifted all those businesses either to foreign countries or brought in illegal aliens to employ.”
Vance says the administration has deported thousands of violent criminals and fraudsters.
“we've deported thousands of violent predators, criminals, fraudsters, and other people who are making it harder for law abiding citizens to live their lives.”
Vance argues that millions of illegal aliens increased housing costs by taking homes from American citizens.
“And when you give them houses that all go by right to American citizens, that's gonna increase the cost of housing for everybody else.”
Vance accuses Democrats of prioritizing one shooting over tens of thousands of Maine fentanyl deaths.
“what I see from Democrats is people who are far more worried about a shooting involving an illegal alien than they are about the fact that tens of thousands of Mainers died from fentanyl overdoses by that poison brought into our community.”
Vance tells Democrats to have perspective on the ICE shooting controversy.
“my message to the Democrats who are so worried about that situation is to say, have a little bit of perspective.”
Vance commits to investigating shootings while prioritizing border security and stopping fentanyl.
“We can absolutely investigate every shooting and we will, but we can also secure our border and ensure that that poison stops coming into our country.”
“And did you know this is the craziest statistic of the entire last administration, that all of the net job creation under Joe Biden's leadership went to foreign born Americans, mostly illegal aliens.”
Bessent argues taxpayers should not fund benefits for those legally barred from receiving them.
““American taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for benefits going to those who are barred by law from receiving them.”
Bessent says the regulations end abuse, protect tax system integrity, and prioritize Americans.
“These proposed regulations end the abuse, protect the integrity of the tax system, and put Americans first.””
Bessent states the action prevents illegal and non-qualified aliens from receiving public benefits they are ineligible for.
“This action cracks down on the abuse of taxpayer-funded refundable individual income tax credits and ensures that illegal aliens and other non-qualified aliens barred by federal law do not receive public benefits, which they are ineligible to receive.”
Bessent states that only U.S. citizens, nationals, and qualified aliens can receive federal public benefits under PRWORA.
“Under PRWORA, only U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and qualified aliens are eligible to receive federal public benefits.”
Williams expects trade and immigration policies combined with uncertainty to weigh on growth.
“But based on what the data tell us today, I expect the combined effects of trade and immigration policies and associated uncertainty to continue to weigh on growth.”