Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday demanded an end to what he called a “neoliberal” status quo on immigration policy that he said is embraced across the political aisle.
The Indian-American entrepreneur in a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington pushed for the Right to get tough on immigration, both legal and illegal.
“We are in the middle of a national identity crisis,” Ramaswamy said. “We have lost our sense of who we are as citizens of this nation, and sloppy immigration policies have only worsened that crisis.”
To address the problem, the country needs “greater screening requirements for legal immigrants that screen not just for their ability to make economic contributions, but also for their willingness and readiness to adopt and share American values during their time here, values that…
