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Oct 16, 2026
David PollackPANELIST
But I think legal immigration is actually a bigger problem, and I know you said that the legal immigration has gone down, but here in DFW where we're doing this debate, one-third of all Indians have come from Hyderabad, India, or Mumbai, India.
David PollackPANELIST
So they are all coming here for the Silicon Prairie 'cause we've got Dell computers, we have Cisco.
David PollackPANELIST
So Indians are taking jobs from college students that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on computer science degrees, and they're working for pennies on the dollar, and he's not stopping that.
David PollackPANELIST
He's giving Chinese, uh, basically Chinese spies stamping their passports.
Alex SteinHOST
Yeah, we live in a free country, but I'm saying what's happening right now is not just organic, um, assimilation.
Alex SteinHOST
What's happening here, especially in Texas, Dallas, DFW area, we have the Silicon Prairie, one-third of all Indians from, uh, India that are on an H-1B visa are in the DFW area.
Alex SteinHOST
And they're taking over schools, so much so that there's a middle school in Prosper, excuse me, in Frisco, that didn't even have enough players to field a middle school football team 'cause Indians, they play cricket, not football.
Alex SteinHOST
So I'm just telling you, I don't like young people like yourself having to compete with foreign immigrated, um, uh, Indians that are lying on their, uh, resume and taking jobs from young kids that are already in tons of college debt.
FredAUDIENCE
You can make a reasonable, not 100%, but you can kind of make a reasonable judgment of what might be happening.
FredAUDIENCE
And when you look at the patterns of where there's been mass immigration of H-1B visas in this, uh, Silicon Prairie of Texas and Frisco, there's a lot of problems, a lot of fraud, and just in general, culturally, they s- really stick together.
FredAUDIENCE
This is even more complicated when you think about Obama weaponized race and got everybody that was of any kind of color other than white to view themself as a victim.
FredAUDIENCE
So I think by and large, a lot of these, a lot of them come in, they vote, they vote Democrat, and I think that's kind of what's going on in Texas.
AnnaHOST
I know of it, though.
JohnHOST
Halt and Ca- Halt and Catch Fire is a period piece about the Silicon Prairie in the 1980s.
AnnaHOST
Yes.
AnnaHOST
No, I have fucking seen this.
Ron CorningHOST
I called it the Silicon Valley, which is different.
Miranda SuarezHOST
Oh, Silicon Prairie.
Ron CorningHOST
Silicon Prairie.
Ron CorningHOST
Yes.
Ron CorningHOST
Silicon Prairie.
Ron CorningHOST
Now I messed it up again in a different way.
Miranda SuarezHOST
That's if we were a plastic surgery capital.
Ron CorningHOST
Yes.
Alex SteinGUEST
It was great.
Alex SteinGUEST
But my point is a lot of people don't realize a third of all the H-1B visa applications that have been approved are in DFW because what Dallas has become is called the Silicon Prairie.
Alex SteinGUEST
They have the Silicon Valley in California, but now we have AT&T's headquarters, Cisco Computers headquarters, Dell Computers.
Alex SteinGUEST
So there's so many tech companies because it's just cheaper for them to operate there.
Alex SteinGUEST
this change.
Alex SteinGUEST
Well, that's a great question that you asked that because a lot of people don't realize that here in the DFW area, it is called the Silicon Prairie.
Alex SteinGUEST
Everybody's heard of Silicon Valley in Northern California, but here in Texas, we have a lot of tech companies.
Alex SteinGUEST
Cisco moved here.
John CookPANELIST
Secondly, like we're our own thing.
John CookPANELIST
We're not the Silicon Prairie.
John CookPANELIST
We're not the Silicon forest.
John CookPANELIST
I don't know.
Dan OsbornGUEST
He's given data centers $519 million worth of tax credits when he was governor of Nebraska to come build here.
Dan OsbornGUEST
He even called Nebraska the Silicon Prairie.
Dan OsbornGUEST
And, you know, for me, it's about guardrailing from the things we know that are bad while protecting the things we know that are good, right? Are they trying to cure cancer or
Bob BrooksGUEST
are they trying to extinguish the human race? Right.
Lucas FarrellHOST
I mean, all these people help.
Lucas FarrellHOST
I mean, they call at one point with the arch grants, I had them on the podcast is it's, you know, the name for St. Louis is Silicon Prairie because it's in the middle of the Midwest and it, there's a lot of startups right down Washington Avenue, you know, where you guys are gonna be spending a lot of time during COVID.
Lucas FarrellHOST
and innovation week, but I just want, I know that was long winded, but what does it mean to see the impact? I mean, you haven't seen it yet over these four days, but you're going to change some of these people's lives during these four days.
Lucas FarrellHOST
Like, what does that mean to you to be able to put that on?
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