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Vivek Ramaswamy: "Merit-Based Immigration is one of the fixes to Economic Growth in this Country."
Breitbart ^ | July 29, 2023 | Neil Munro

Posted on 07/29/2023 2:34:36 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told Elon Musk Friday that he favors more immigration into skilled U.S. jobs and that former President Donald Trump made a “poor decision” by exiting the Pacific-region free trade treaty.

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About 20 minutes into the conversation, Ramaswamy also argued for more migration after Musk called for more migration:

I agree with that. I actually fully agree with that. And that’s one of the things where I think the Republican Party needs to define where we actually stand. There is an anti-legal immigration current [mood among voters] … I’m going to be on the debate stage in a month, and if anybody has any qualms with this, I think I’m gonna have a real problem with that because merit-based immigration is one of the fixes to economic growth in this country.

“Merit-based immigration” refers mostly to the inflow of foreign graduates into the well-paid white-collar careers needed by American graduates.

Many polls show that Americans — especially GOP voters — are increasingly outspoken against both legal immigration and illegal migration that is used to shift vast wealth from middle-class families to business leaders and coastal investors. The polls show the greatest opposition to migration into corporate jobs. Those much-denied populist attitudes fueled Trump’s win in the 2016 election against the globalist-backed Hillary Clinton, who prioritized Wall Street’s economic growth instead of voters’ pocketbook growth.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americanjobstheft; h1b; immigration; israel; nevertrumpers; ramaswamy; rino; trojanhorse; trump; vivekramaswamy; waronterror
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To: EEGator; All
Yup.I’d seal the borders for 10 years and re-implement President Eisenhauer’s “Operation Werback” deportation program.

This country needs to get back to basics. Example: Bad guys go to jail or are executed.

61 posted on 07/29/2023 4:07:21 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: Cobra64

I’m in.


62 posted on 07/29/2023 4:08:48 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Time to have an immigration moratorium - and mass deportation of all who entered under Biden.

Send Ramaswampy away too.


63 posted on 07/29/2023 4:18:56 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

People who want more migration do not have to drive in rush hour traffic.


64 posted on 07/29/2023 4:29:56 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man
America has been always conquered via migration. The indians learned that, and Mexico learned it when they invited anglos there, only to lose parts of the land now called Texas.
65 posted on 07/29/2023 4:38:19 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: entropy12; DIRTYSECRET
How do non-judeo-christians vote:

70-30% Dems over Repub.

66 posted on 07/29/2023 4:51:12 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: entropy12
Why the Indian Education system sucks THE MOST out of the lot.





"Learning atmosphere is a myth in MOST schools of India and that includes the “oh so great Private CBSE Schools found all over”. The students are made to sit in Assembly-Line like conditions in four or five seater benches (that is a luxury when compared to the govt. run schools) in infra-structurally deficient schools and are made to cram everything meaningless to ‘get settled’ which is basically get hold of a medical or engineering degree from some sh*tty govt. college."



67 posted on 07/29/2023 5:00:39 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man
If you take the national debt and divide it by the number of working Americans, it comes to something like $182,000 per person. That’s like having to pay off a mortgage — without even having a home to show for it.

The dirty little secret is that the U.S. is looking for tens of millions of immigrants to sign up for this idiotic deal.

68 posted on 07/29/2023 5:01:48 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: thegagline

Trump’s always been in favor of opening the floodgates to skilled, white-collar workers from overseas. Of course, he never abolished or even spoke about abolishing affirmative action which gives these H1-B immigrants a leg up on white American citizens for job openings.

I have firsthand experience of this in my brother’s attempts to get a job. Affirmative action hires from China and India are hired even though they’re less qualified and have atrocious communication skills in English. They are constantly getting the university jobs he’s applying for. It’s all part of DEI and Affirmative Action. Trump loves these foreign hires. He’s fully in favor of importing them. He’s said so on many occasions.


69 posted on 07/29/2023 5:05:35 PM PDT by PA Presbyterian (Never Surrender!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Trump daca 2.0… o goody.


70 posted on 07/29/2023 5:18:10 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: PA Presbyterian

Maybe you want to rethink your sweeping fallacious pronouncement.

The Trump administration embraced the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act in August 2017. The RAISE Act seeks to reduce levels of legal immigration to the United States by 50% by halving the number of green cards issued.

Forbes
https://www.forbes.com › stuartanderson › 2020/08/26
Aug 26, 2020 — Legal Immigration Cut in Half, Most Categories Blocked: By 2021, Donald Trump will have reduced legal immigration by 49% since becoming ...


71 posted on 07/29/2023 5:30:43 PM PDT by JayGalt
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The most prevalent group of people in India are of mixed Caucasian/Aryan and Asian ancestry, so if he is anti-”White” he is a 1st class hypocrite, as well as choosing immigrants above Americans for jobs-neither is a resume enhancer, in my opinion...


72 posted on 07/29/2023 5:31:05 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: JayGalt

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/08/26/fact-check-and-review-of-trump-immigration-policy/?sh=65a5127356c0


73 posted on 07/29/2023 5:32:00 PM PDT by JayGalt
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To: MarMema

They won’t stick around for a draft.


74 posted on 07/29/2023 5:42:44 PM PDT by bobcat62
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To: odawg

All that matters is price.


75 posted on 07/29/2023 5:43:58 PM PDT by bobcat62
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To: Macho MAGA Man

This guy saying “all the right things” is very transparent.

India is so overcrowded that something has to be considered a solution.

Ooooo, I know, LET’S MOVE SOME PEOPLE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY.

Hypocrite, Trogen Horse, sneaky devil...whatever.

He will be going downhill faster than an Olympic ski medalist.


76 posted on 07/29/2023 5:48:51 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Macho MAGA Man

No thanks, why not let AMERICAN CORPORATIONS hire AMERICANS, instead of importing immigrants??


77 posted on 07/29/2023 5:57:48 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: central_va

But none for Vivek?


78 posted on 07/29/2023 7:55:55 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Socon-Econ

Congratulations for not having a knee jerk reaction and asking the right questions. I would like to know the answers too. Whatever it is, he specifically said it’s not about depressing wages of or replacing native born Americans using cheap imports. He needs to elaborate what he means by merit based.


79 posted on 07/29/2023 10:03:56 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Macho MAGA Man
Re: "Merit-Based Immigration"

Vivek Ramaswamy needs emergency instruction on political reality.

Asian-Indian Americans are the best educated and highest paid immigrant group in the USA.

One problem...

80% of Asian-Indian Americans voted to reelect Barack Obama in 2012.

78% of Asian-Indian Americans voted to elect Hillary Clinton in 2016.

In 2020, Pew Research and Carnegie Institute did pre-election polling that showed Asian-Indians at 75% ++ for Joe Biden.

If there is 2020 exit polling for Asian Indians, I cannot find it posted on any free websites.

80 posted on 07/30/2023 8:53:07 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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