JD Vance blames foreign labor and open borders for decline of US; netizens react: ‘H-1B is an America last program’
JD Vance delivered a speech in Middletown, targeting outsourcing and foreign labor as threats to American manufacturing.
On Friday, Vice President JD Vance made a speech in his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, criticizing outsourcing, foreign labor, and decades of economic policies that he said weakened American manufacturing. He argued that President Donald Trump's policies were reversing this decline. Vance recounted stories of classmates whose parents lost factory jobs after companies moved operations overseas and of a computer programmer who died by suicide after being required to train a foreign replacement.
Vance linked the opioid crisis to the loss of industrial jobs and connected immigration policies to the fentanyl crisis. He accused corporate executives and politicians of prioritizing profits over American communities, specifically targeting The Wall Street Journal for advocating freer movement of labor. Vance's family history in Middletown, where his grandfather worked at a steel plant, served as a personal example of the community's industrial decline.
He contrasted this with an industrial revival under Trump, citing trillions of dollars in new investments in manufacturing facilities since his administration took office.
The speech drew strong reactions on social media, particularly regarding criticism of the H-1B visa program and the practice of workers being asked to train foreign replacements. One user tweeted, "H-1B is the opposite of America First. American families deserve first shot at American jobs. Companies that force workers to train their foreign replacements are gutting the people who built this country."
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