The U.S. government is importing too many legal immigrants and too many H-1B visa workers, Vice President JD Vance told a cheering crowd of roughly 10,000 Turning Point supporters and students Thursday at the University of Mississippi.

“What is the exact number of immigrants America should accept in the future?” he said in response to a question, adding:

Right now, the answer is far less than we’ve been accepting. We have got to become a common [high trust] community again, and you can’t do that when you have such high numbers of [legal] immigration, which is one of the reasons why we have the immigration policy we do [have].

“We have got to get our overall numbers way, way down,” he said.

The H-1B visa worker program is touted as a means to import a few genius graduates, but is actually used to import cheap white-collar labor for employers, Vance said:

You want that super genius to stay in the United States of America and not go somewhere else. [But] what [the program] is actually used to do is hire an [foreign] accountant at a 50 percent discount to an American citizen

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