WASHINGTON – Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined The Benny Show to discuss his support for ending the H-1B program, the vote to end the government shutdown in the United States House of Representatives, and the need for healthcare, immigration and education reform.

Watch the full interview here.

"H-1Bs, those are a scam, those have got to go":

"Our K-12 system has failed our young people. If you look at mastery in mathematics, mastery in writing, mastery in reading, our young people are not graduating high school being economically viable. They are not being prepared in the K-12 system. It's one of the reasons why I support school choice so vehemently, because they are not being prepared in the K-12 system for the economy to come. And then they're coming out and they're graduating and they're wondering why. How come I am not getting this job? How come I am not making more money to be able to get in the game on the American dream? We have all the talent, Benny, in America. All the talent we could possibly need. One of our core problems in our educational establishment. Teachers unions, bureaucrats, they have failed a generation of young people, and they're not just prepared. We have the talent, but they've never been trained to be able to do these things, and it's creating a major issue. You couple that with the visa problems that we have - H-1Bs, those are a scam, those have got to go. Diversity lotteries, I've been opposed to those things for fifteen years. Chain migration, it's got to go too. So many of these things have actually been set up by Democrats who want open borders, by corporations that want cheap labor, and it has fallen on young people in America. And it's got to change, it's got to stop."

"Immigration is for America, it's not for foreign nationals. It is for America, and what America needs... it can't be to the detriment of the American dream and Americans being able to put food on the table":

"Well, I think first, people who are already here, there's going to have to be a clearing house process on that. And that's to be determined how that's going to look. I think for the companies, they need to understand that immigration is for America, it's not for foreign nationals. It is for America, and what America needs, what American workers need, and really for the vitality of the future of our country. And what's really happened in immigration in the last 60 years in America, this is not even a new phenomena. We're just now dealing with all of the issues of the phenomena. But America immigration over the last 60 years has not been about the American people. It has been about cheap labor for corporations, and it has been about radical open borders for Democrats, and it has not actually been to the priority of the American people. So look, we want companies to come here, we want them to thrive, we want them to flourish, but it can't be to the detriment of the American dream and Americans being able to put food on the table."

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