American Workers First

Hello everyone. If you follow me on notes, you will know that I have been talking about this already. Now that I am able to sit down, I wanted to make a longer format rant about the H1B debate that has raged over Christmas.

For those of you who don’t follow me on notes, the long story short is that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump’s DOGE heads, came out with multiple posts on X about how we need H1B workers in the technology sector. Most of these H1B workers would be from India.

Now, you might be thinking, Oceanus, what is the problem here? H1B is legal immigration. Why wouldn’t we want talented people working in our technology sector? To that I say there is a problem because I am a nationalist who believes that we should be using American talents as we have historically.

My criticism of illegal immigration has been straightforward. It creates a massive foreign underclass that demographically changes the United States and takes work away from our people. Aside from that, big business will use illegal alien labor to circumvent labor laws to get workers for cheap, undercutting wages for Americans.

This massive foreign underclass then votes for politicians that will either grant amnesty or do nothing to stem the flow of mass migration, allowing more people to come with little fear of deportation. There is no loyalty to America, only to themselves.

We get an inverse problem with H1B. While those that come to America on an H1B visa will be fewer than the mass migration we have seen, it is still bringing a class of foreigner to supplant American citizens, in this case, a more elite class.

As a nationalist, I see a legal foreign elite overclass just as dangerous as an illegal foreign underclass. These elites will be more influential in policymaking as they will be embedded in a key sector of the economy, technology.

While this influx of foreign talent may seem good in the short term, in the long term it will turn out just as it has with mass migration, only this time we will have an issue from the top of society rather than from the bottom.

American talent will have a harder time competing for jobs in the technology sector as the H1B class is embedded into the power structure. The H1B class will continue advocating for the further importation of H1B talent.

Musk and Ramaswamy received massive pushback from the American right-wing on this issue. I would still have disagreed with them, but I think they would have received less of the reaction they had gotten had they not posted stuff like this:

Insulting Americans for having misgivings about more foreign labor (of a different kind) coming into the country was not the way to go. It makes them look bad and it also makes President Trump look bad.

One of the biggest reasons that Donald Trump got elected a second time in the first place was because of massive amounts of foreign labor coming into the country. Even if that backlash was technically against illegal immigration, that doesn’t mean that replacing American jobs legally is good either.

This isn’t some novel idea either. In multiple instances throughout our history, the United States put restrictions on legal immigration. The Naturalization Act of 1790 restricted immigration to free white persons of good character. The Naturalization Act of 1795 increased the naturalization period of required residence in the US from two to five years.

Mind you the above examples are clearly very out of date, but we have had numerous legislation on the immigration issue since then. The point is that America has sovereignty over our borders, whether anyone likes it or not.

Forgive my ignorance, it is just difficult to understand as to why Americans always seem to have to be reliant on others to get a job done. We didn’t become a superpower through H1B or illegal immigration.

If there is a problem with the American education system (which there are many) to the point that we aren’t producing enough people who can do these technology sector jobs, shouldn’t we instead strive to fix the education system where it is lacking?

This wouldn’t just be a benefit for us, this would be a benefit to India as well. If we take most of India’s best and brightest, what does that leave India? Wouldn’t we want India to have a thriving economy? The same applies to the rest of the third world that suffers from brain drain as their best and brightest come here for work.

Also, regarding to the rebuttal of Wernher von Braun being German and advancing our rocketry well beyond where it would have been, I would argue that Von Braun was, to put it frankly, a spoil of war. I’m pretty certain that Von Braun would have gladly stayed in Germany had history gone differently.

The bottom line is this: America is not an international shopping mall or economic zone. We are a people, a culture, not an internationalist launchpad for capitalism, socialism or whatever ideology revolving around internationalist aims. It is about time that our government starts acting like it.

The sovereignty of the American nation is not negotiable. The breaches of our sovereignty by foreign interests has only gotten us into debt, war, and economic and social decline. When one takes in the world, suddenly the world becomes our business.

I’m not saying that I am now anti-Elon. Despite being horrible on this issue, he still has good ideas and vision for American technological and interstellar advancement. That doesn’t mean I cannot criticize the guy when I believe that he is in the wrong.

Many others have said this, but I also believe that it is a good thing that this debate came up before January 20th. The backlash from the base was so loud that Musk and Vivek were forced to listen to concerns. By their responses, they clearly heard the concerns. Whether or not they adjust themselves remains to be seen.

I doubt this is the last that we will see about this issue, it will probably persist throughout the second Trump Presidency. However, we need to keep up the pressure. Remind the world that part of America First is faith in the American worker.

If we do not have faith in ourselves, what is it all for?