Big Tech Won: How Trump Failed to Stop Foreign Worker Replacement 11 Years Later | 6/12/26

Eleven years after Trump's 2015 escalator speech promising to put American workers first, Daniel Horowitz delivers a scathing indictment of the GOP's failure to deliver on immigration reform—especially regarding foreign worker visas. Despite a Republican trifecta, no major legislation has been passed to restrict H-1B visas, curb the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, or strip courts of jurisdiction over immigration. Horowitz argues that Trump’s administration, far from being a conservative disruptor, has actively enabled big tech’s dominance by protecting foreign labor pipelines, even reversing earlier reforms. His guest, John Miano—a 30-year veteran of immigration law and computer programming—reveals how executive overreach and judicial complicity have turned the H-1B and OPT programs into tools for replacing American workers, with 50,000 foreign tech workers imported in one year alone while only 40,000 domestic jobs were created. The episode exposes a systemic collapse: Congress is paralyzed, courts ignore precedent, and even conservative lawmakers now support policies that undermine American labor. Horowitz concludes with a radical call for constitutional resistance—state interposition, defiance of federal overreach, and a new movement inspired by the American Revolution’s principles of consent and sovereignty—warning that without it, the U.S. faces a slow-motion French Revolution.