Marjorie Taylor Greene Wades Into MAGA Civil War Over Need For Migrant Workers: ‘Here Is Some Tough Reality’

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) weighed in on the MAGA civil war over immigration on Friday after Vivek Ramaswamy kicked a hornet’s nest on the right the day before by arguing that the U.S. needs to import high-skilled workers as American culture has led to mediocrity in the population.

“The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ‘native’ Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture,” Ramaswamy argued on X on Thursday. “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer).”

Greene, never one to miss out on a culture war fight, offered her thoughts in a lengthy post – trying to stake out a middle ground.

“Good gracious, I came out of Christmas bliss to see arguments about American labor vs H1-B imported labor and MAGA split over this issue,” began the controversial congresswoman, adding:

Good, that means everyone is engaged in saving this country.
Here is some tough reality for some of you:
There are some big MAGA voices with large social media platforms throwing down their opinions yet they have never run a company that relies on thousands of skilled/highly trained workers with a constant need for reliable labor yet they claim authority over the subject matter.

When you spend years trying to constantly hire/train/maintain a good reliable workforce, which is a 24/7 never ending cycle, your real world experience will produce an opinion based on reality and all of your followers on X don’t translate to this.

Greene appeared to taking aim at the likes of Laura Loomer, who slammed Elon Musk for defending the H1-B visa. Axios reported on Friday that Loomer along with “New York Young Republican Club president Gavin Wax and InfoWars host Owen Shroyer all said their verification badges disappeared after they criticized Musk’s support for H1B visas, railed against Indian culture and attacked Ramaswamy, Musk’s DOGE co-chair.”

Greene went on to agree with some of Ramaswamy’s points about American workers not being prepared to succeed:

Too many of our young people, are killing their bodies and minds on alcohol and drugs, wasting years and money earning useless college degrees, chasing unrealistic dreams, spending all their time trying to be the next you tuber/content creator/social media influencer instead of pursuing a useful skill set/trade/education in order to become a part of our much needed American workforce.

If you fall in this category, put down the selfie light, and go apply for a job and replace the H1-B visa holders and all the other skilled labor jobs that foreign workers are taking and American companies are desperately trying to hire.

It’s called building a career, you work your way up.

In order to go forward we must change our education system, create a culture that respects hard work and productivity, cut government waste/spending/regulations in order to produce a healthy robust economy that lowers inflation and pays higher wages to an American workforce, so that H1-B is no longer needed and can be done away with.

Greene’s take on the issue quickly found criticism on the hard right as many called it “out of touch.” Below are some reactions to Greene’s post, including some who thought she threaded the needle between both sides of the debate:

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