America Should Not Become a Nation of Tiger Moms

A rift in the MAGA coalition emerged last week as Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk—co-chairs of DOGE, a Trump advisory committee—advocated for more H-1B visas, angering immigration hard-liners in the GOP base. Generally, the debate over H-1B is an economic one. But in his defense of the program, Ramaswamy turned the conversation to culture, arguing that tech companies prefer to hire foreigners—and their offspring—because the children of native-born Americans don’t work hard enough.