Marjorie Taylor Greene Defies Trump over Immigrant Workers Issue
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s outspoken advocacy of America-First policies are now directly clashing with none other than President Trump, who has overreacted to Greene’s recent criticism of Trump’s immigration policy on hiring foreign workers for American jobs. In a display of classic Trump reaction, the President withdrew her endorsement of the Republican Congresswoman from Georgia for the next election.
Greene has been vocal for quite some time over what she and many other conservatives see as America’s continued involvement in foreign wars and foreign, particularly Israeli, influence in the Trump administration. She also advocated for releasing the Epstein files so as to hold the culprits responsible for sexually abusing minors on American soil. None of these positions sat well with Trump who has repeatedly dismissed calls for releasing the Epstein client list and continued to prioritize Israel over American interests.
Trump’s brewing dislike for Greene exploded over the weekend as he called her a “traitor” on his social media site Truth Social along with other derogatory labels used for the Congresswoman.
One important front of this Trump-Greene political breakup opened during a Fox News interview the President had with anchor Laura Ingraham last week as she questioned his policy on hiring foreign workers under the H1B visa program. While Ingraham insisted that America has plenty of its own talent and doesn’t need foreign workers, Trump stuck to his position that Americans need to learn more and foreign workers are needed to support the country’s economy.
Marjorie Taylor Greene came out strongly in opposition to this policy of Trump and other issues that are not pro-America. From her personal X account, Greene publicly opposed the Trump administration’s recent plan to issue some 60,000 student visa to Chinese nationals to come and study in American colleges and universities. She wrote:
“I am against bringing any foreign leader that is a terrorist or oversees killing innocent people into our country and into the Oval Office.”
The first was a reference to former Islamic terrorist and current Syrian dictator Al-Sharara, who recently visited Trump at the White House, and the second to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has widely been accused of the genocide of Palestinians over the past two years.
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1988598166451585256
The very next day, Greene announced that she’ll be introducing a bill to completely eliminate the H1B visa program, which has been a means for the mass replacement of American workers. Contradicting Trump, Greene wrote that she has full confidence in Americans as the most talented people in the world. Greene posted her video message to her official X page
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1989120185236607184
Greene is not alone in demanding an end to the replacement of American workers with foreign ones who come to the country on H1B visa and most later apply for citizenship and bring their families permanently to America as well. Republican Congressman Chip Roy of Texas went on Benny Johnson’s show to oppose the H1B visa program. Roy told Johnson that he’ll be introducing a bill to put a freeze on all immigration until the H1B program is eliminated and other immigration loopholes are closed.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1988704605866492137
Many conservative commentators and podcasters including, but not limited to, Natalie Winters, Steve Bannon, Mark Mitchell, Breanna Morello, Mike Adams, Harrison Smith, and Paul Ray Ramsey have all on their platforms called for an instant end to the H1B program. Famous actor and filmmaker Kevin Sorbo, a conservative, expressed his strong disapproval of Trump’s comments about American people’s talent. On his X page, Sorbo called Trump’s comments “atrocious” that would cost Republicans the midterms.
If anyone is a traitor concerning the H1B visas it would be Trump.
Greene is not real-world. We doubtless need SOME foreign workers, but we also need controls to prevent them from being used to depress salaries when there are sufficient US workers with the required skills. Until the native born increase their reproduction rate, we probably also need at least some small amount of well-qualified immigration.
She’s also wrong about Israel. They’re entitled to exist, and as long as Hamas ran Gaza under the premise that Israel is not entitled to exist, everyone in Gaza that didn’t leave was a fair target.
Trump, as ever, takes everything personally and sometimes fails to explain differences in a palatable way.
I generally agree with Trump on most items, but I would need to see additional proof that H1B visas are necessary to fill important jobs in the US of A. To the best of my knowledge, we have lots of American born and bred students that have graduated right beside the foreign candidates.
On the issue of allowing 60,000 Chinese students to attend our so called elite universities, Trump could not be more wrong. These 60000 admissions are filling seats at top pier universities that US kids would be happy to fill and pay full tuition.