VDare's John Derbyshire on whether Kellyanne Conway fears Ron DeSantis
or other MAGA candidate will get to Donald Trump's right on th
National Question: <URL:https://vdare.com/posts/from-derb-s-email-bag-trump-and-h-1bs-leaf-blowers-moon-faced-balts-and-vocalizing-russian-etc>
| The Trump administration and H-1Bs. I relied on a 2021 Forbes
| article about how energetic Trump's people had been in trying to
| curb H-1B visa abuse. A listener who has been at the sharp end of
| that abuse begs to differ.
|
| Mr. Derbyshire,
|
| Thanks for your article about the recent tech layoffs and H-1Bs.
|
| For the record, I supported Trump enthusiastically in his
| primary and first general, even sending him a campaign donation out
| of my rapidly diminishing severance. I reluctantly voted for him in
| 2020 after feeling great disappointment.
|
| I used to live in [name of city] which is absolutely over-run
| with H-1Bs, mostly from India. I struggled to find work in tech in
| the area and eventually moved away--I was almost exclusively
| contacted by Indian recruiters for interviews with exclusively
| Indian managers who most certainly wouldn't hire outside of their
| own caste much less race.
|
| This issue is near and dear to my heart, having been THE reason
| I supported Trump in his primary and first general.
|
| You stated;
|
| "Here I should give credit to Donald Trump and his
| administration. They fought hard against the guest-worker racket,
| with some success";
|
| I have to disagree.
|
| During his first campaign Trump used Sarah Blackwell (anti-H1B
| activist attorney) as a campaign prop.
|
| Also during his first campaign, Trump had published his promise
| to "forever end the use of the H-1B visa as a source of cheap
| labor."After he was elected this was removed from his website.
|
| Shortly after he was elected, Trump's speech at the tool factory
| was a major disappointment. He did basically nothing except command
| USCIS to report back to him in 6 months with recommendations (which
| he failed to even try to enact until right before his next
| election).
|
| Trump appointed Chad Wolf, a former H-1B lobbyist, to run the
| DHS. That certainly is not fighting hard against the guest worker
| racket.
|
| Not long after, Sarah Blackwell said that Trump, his campaign,
| and his staff (including Stephen Miller) had gone dark--complete
| radio silence and failure to communicate, likely knowing their
| neglect of this promise made a lot of supporters very unhappy
| (myself included).
|
| The only actual reforms he even attempted while [L. Francis]
| Cissna was running USCIS were far too little and far too late,
| mostly materializing just before the supposed election of 2020.
|
| I suspect Jared Kushner had a lot of influence with Trump to
| abandon this issue and those of us who supported Trump because of
| his stated stance on it, but ultimately I still blame Trump for even
| having Jared Kushner anywhere in his orbit besides at Passover
| dinners with the grandkids.

Will Conway invite the likes of Mike Emmons onto the Save America
PAC campaign stage?

John
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1990s stock "debate issues": gun control, abortion, prayer in
skrewls, EPA ...but on signature Trump matters of immigration, trade
--maybe time to give us something too. Compromise and so on..." -
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