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Tech investor Eric Schmidt stepped to a podium and told college grads to cheer for AI and to welcome more immigrants. The crowd booed. That reaction should tell Congress and voters what the rest of us already know: when the tech elite insist they can have both faster automation and open borders, they are asking ordinary Americans to lose twice — once to a machine and once to a foreign replacement.
The elites want both: AI and more immigration
Schmidt’s message was simple for him: embrace artificial intelligence and keep the flow of talented foreigners coming. For the graduates, it read as a prescription for fewer job chances and lower pay. Tech billionaires see productivity gains as profit. They also like cheap labor and more customers. Why choose if you can have both? Because someone has to pay the price. Hint: it’s not the billionaire.
Congress should face the trade-off: pick people or cheap labor
There is a real choice here and a real policy to be made. Lawmakers can slow legal immigration and protect workers, or they can continue to expand visa programs like H-1B, OPT, L-1 and others while cheering on AI that replaces jobs. Both at once is a recipe for dislocation. The right answer for a country is not to import a workforce to prop up corporate margins while handing out the technologies that put your own citizens out of work.
Fixes that put Americans first
The sensible approach is clear: phase down white-collar visa dependence, protect American wages, and demand accountability from companies that automate without a plan for displaced workers. Retraining matters, but it is not a magic spell. Phasing visa numbers over a few years gives time for transition. So does insisting that automation creates jobs here at home — not just in overseas call centers and remote gig platforms.
If politicians keep bowing to Silicon Valley donors and globalist investors, the complaints from working Americans will only grow louder. President Trump has even admitted that robots will be needed at times, but the point is who benefits. Is it the American family or the shareholders? Congress should pick a side. Voters know which one they are on. And the boos at that speech? Consider them a fair warning.
