How typically GOP

GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to “gut” the system for H-1B temporary worker visas if he wins the White House.

It’s the very system he’s used in the past to hire high-skilled foreign workers for the pharma company that built much of his wealth.

From 2018 through 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved 29 applications for Ramaswamy’s former company, Roivant Sciences, to hire employees under H-1B visas, which allow U.S. companies to employ foreign workers in tech and other specialized jobs.

Yet, the H-1B system is “bad for everyone involved,” Ramaswamy told POLITICO.

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“The people who come as family members are not the meritocratic immigrants who make skills-based contributions to this country.”

  Politico

Like himself, I assume he means.

He’s also said he’d use military force to secure the border, and that he would deport U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants.

H-1B visas are highly sought after, and the demand for these workers continues to increase: For fiscal year 2021, U.S. businesses submitted 780,884 applications for just 85,000 available slots, jumping by more than 60 percent.

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“My parents came to this country with no money 40 years ago,” he said [at the first GOP debate].

So, not meritocratic immigrants?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.