 immigration. We've talked about a little bit. So where is this? I've got a story here. So basically Trump today blocked legal immigration into the country. You know, it always going to I don't know if he actually did it or is about to do it. I think it's I think you already did it. So a number of visas all legal immigrants are basically blocked for immigrating into the country. It applies for any new immigrants. And again, these are not citizenship. These are work visas. So he's blocking a whole series of work visas into the United States on the pretense of we're in an economic crisis and we need to make sure all the jobs are taken by Americans. Now this is consistent with Donald Trump's zero uh some game view of economics. My gain is your loss. My job is you didn't have a job, which is the exact opposite. Immigrants create many, many more jobs than they take if you will. Plus what about freedom? What about competition? What about having the best person for the best job? Uh but uh he has banned uh these immigrations now. They're all kinds of little loopholes. You know, you you you you they still have to draft them. They haven't drafted the loopholes, but the loopholes are going to be if you're critical to national security. Although people who are national security to national security can't immigrate anyway because they don't get the security clearance. But anyway, um if you're necessary for the economic recovery or essential for the U.S. food supply chain, I guess us help the country's economic recovery, we should be increasing immigration dramatically. That will help the economic recovery and not restricting immigration. It's exactly the opposite. Immigration is win win. Uh and of course the new measures don't apply to people who already have visas. But we're talking about restrictions. H1B visas. These are visas that high-tech employees go and work in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Many of those, by the way, become entrepreneurs and create many many jobs as a consequence from something like 50% of all new startups in Silicon Valley have founders who are immigrants that started out as H1Bs. H1Bs, which is visas to fill temporary non-agricultural jobs, that is our J1 visas, which is participate in work and study based exchange visitor programs. L1 visas can do that either. So those are the four visas that have been excluded. The one that has the most impact is an H1B. I've been on, I was an H1B, I think I was an H1B visa or something like that. I was on this highly skilled visa. Maybe it was an H1B. I did, I was on practical training, which is another type of visa which is I'm sure has been excluded. Then I was on an H1B or something similar to an H1B. Then I got a green card. Then I got my citizenship. So he's just banning all these immigrants. Again, a complete zero sum view of the world. And by the way, I've always said, always said from 2015 that Trump was anti-immigration and I was always get this attack. No, no, no. We're only against illegal immigration. I said, no, Trump has always been and always will be anti-immigration, including high skilled immigration like H1Bs. No, no, no, no, no. We only hate illegal immigrants. Trump is not against legal immigrants. Only illegal immigrants. Well, now you know. Now you know. He's against both types of immigration. Somebody asked me on Twitter, I think, well, why shouldn't Americans get those jobs? Because that's un-American. It's un-American to hire somebody because of their nationality. It's un-American to hire somebody who's not as good for the price as somebody else. It's un-American to take the lesser candidate. It's un-American not to take better and cheaper. It's un-American not to try to maximize your profits, maximize your well-being, maximize your lifestyle, maximize your happiness, maximize your life. And for a lot of us that involves hiring immigrants. And why is it the government's business who are hired? I don't believe we should have anti-discrimination laws like Title VII. I should be able to hire anybody I want. So if I want to hire immigrants, I should be able to hire immigrants. If I want to hire only gays, I should be able to hire only gays or only women or only trans or only whatever. It's my business, private property. Who are you? And whose right is being protected? You don't have a right to a job. That is an unbelievable leftist position, the idea that you have a right to income from somebody else. The fact that you're American because you happen to be born here and you have an American passport doesn't give you a right to anything except your freedom. And what does that mean? It means a right to action, to act in pursuit of values, not the values themselves. In pursuit of values, you have a right to apply for a job, not to get it. Even to apply, you don't really have a right. You can try, you can seek, you can pursue. So to hire immigrants, and here we're talking about the creme de la creme of immigrants. I mean, think about this, think about this. Two thirds of all STEM graduate students, STEM is science and technology, engineering and math, I think that's right, science, technology, engineering, math. All science, technology, engineering, and math students in the United States, graduate students, sorry, graduate students, masters and PhDs, are foreigners. Two thirds, the last time I saw the number, maybe it's even higher than it could be 75%, are foreigners. We educate them. All of us, tax-paying Americans subsidize their education. We do. It's a fact. The labs, the buildings, the tuition, to some extent, if your PhD student, to the entire extent, is subsidized by all of us Americans. And then when they get their PhD or their master's degree, we kick them out of the country. We send them home so that they can take the expertise that they have gained in our universities, in American universities, and apply it to starting companies in China, in Israel, in Sweden, in Africa, wherever they come from, wherever they come from. That reminds me, oh, anyway, I'll make this other point in a minute. So instead of encouraging them to stay, or at least not stopping them from staying and building their businesses here, or not building a business, but going to work for a business here, bringing their genius, bringing their brain, bringing their talent, bringing their abilities, they just got a PhD or a master's degree from a top American university in STEM. You want to know why jobs are leaving America, or why production supposedly is leaving America? It's because we don't have the talent in America. Why don't we hire the talent? Because people are xenophobic, zero-sum economics. I don't know. They've got this bizarre notion that we should have preferential treatment for American, I guess white, I don't know, but American engineers. But it's not even the color of the skin because they kick back, they kick back home, European engineers too. So let's hire anybody of talent. I mean, I would say, let anybody in who can find a job, anybody who can find a job should be allowed in. But suddenly, it's just mind-numbing that you don't see that we should let anybody only can find a good job, a STEM job, and those jobs create jobs. Yes, somebody put our universities in quote, yes, quote our universities, not our universities, but of course, many of them are public universities in a sense that the government subsidizes them, my taxpayers subsidizing them. And even Harvard and Stanford and those universities get huge grants and research grants and everything from the government. So the STEM work that is happening is work subsidized by us, and then we kick them out. We give them the best training in the world, the best education in the world, and then we send them home. It literally is one of, I won't say the dumbest, but one of the dumbest policies ever, and Donald Trump just doubled up on that from dumb to dumb. I always said there was a shift in the culture of America when that movie came out and became a hit. Dumb and Dumber. Dumb and Dumber was like, I thought was a low point, but no, it wasn't a low point. It was the beginning of the low point. The low point got a lot lower, a lot lower. So anyway, Trump's anti immigration agenda is fully revealed and it's ugly and destructive to this country. Let's see, what else do we want to talk about? Oh, yeah, I did want to mention this. It's just an anecdote that I thought would be interesting, particularly for those of you who are IQ freaks and IQ and race and bell curves and all that. I wonder if you know what nationality, ethnic group, I don't know how you want to define it, has the highest educational standards in the United States? That is, which group in the United States gets the most masters and PhD degrees and undergraduate degrees, I think. It just goes to college and gets high degrees. Which group in the United States, based on nationality, gets high? So somebody said Ashkenazi Jews. Yeah, Jews have pretty high education rates, but no, this group has higher education rate than Ashkenazi Jews. And by the way, I'm offended by the whole Ashkenazi Jewish versus Swati Jews is complete BS. Asians, people say Asians, they're Chinese. No, not Asians. It's not Jews Ashkenazi Oswati. Yes. My man, Skyler, Skyler knows his stuff. Nigerians, Nigerian immigrants to the United States have the highest educational achievement in the United States. Not Indians, not Asians, not Chinese, not Jews. Nigerians, more masters, more PhDs, more bachelor's degrees. You can look it up, google it. It's, you know, it was a story in the Houston Chronicle, based on research that was done, that's why I saw it. Yeah, somebody's already said, what's the source? Iran's lying again. He's making stuff up. Or better, it's fake news because it doesn't match my priors. Black people can't be well educated. That wouldn't, that can't make sense. No, they, they, it's not based on affirmative action. It's Nigerians. You know, the guy, there's a movie about this, the guy who discovered the whole idea of concussions in football, you know, that, that there was a connection and there was real brain damage and really lobby Dan Eiffel and had the rules changed. And all of that started with one doctor. And that doctor was a Nigerian. He was a Nigerian doctor in the United States. Didn't know anything about football. He'd grown up in Nigeria. So let me call BS to bell curves. BS to IQ based group, whatever you want to call it. So yeah. And, and one of the best immigrant groups that comes into this country in terms of economic performance are blacks from either Africa or other Caribbean's. They do very well. So the problem with blacks in America is cultural, institutional, leadership, philosophical, ideological has nothing to do with the color of their skin. All right. I mean, it might have something to do with the color of the skin because racism, it doesn't have to do with their internally, what they have internally. But, but yes, check out Nigerians. It's pretty amazing the, the achievements. We're talking about doctors and we're talking about engineers and many, many engineers and so on. What we need today, what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. 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