The Stack: Immigration Is a Privilege Not a Right
Filling in on The Todd Huff Show, Krish Dhanam delivers a deeply personal and provocative reflection on immigration in America. As a first-generation immigrant who arrived legally in 1986, he contrasts the rigorous visa process of decades past with today’s border crisis and alleged H-1B visa abuses.
Dhanam explores sovereignty, assimilation, and whether America has drifted from the principle that immigration is a privilege, not a right. He questions modern enforcement practices, census counting, and election integrity while challenging immigrants to integrate into American civic life rather than recreate the cultures they left behind.
From Ellis Island to present-day visa lotteries, this episode calls for moral clarity, lawful processes, and a renewed commitment to preserving the constitutional republic.
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📝 Transcript: Immigration Is a Privilege Not a Right
The Todd Huff Show – February 25, 2026
Host: Krish Dhanam
Krish Dhanam: Greetings everybody. This is Krish Dhanam filling in again for Todd Huff on The Todd Huff Show, the home of conservative not bitter. I'm always grateful to my dear friend Todd for giving me these opportunities over these many years. I marvel when I get a chance to fill in for radio shows and have to record for them as to how hard it really is to constantly have that amount of content available to fill segment after segment, day after day, week after week. But he, along with his family, is probably enjoying a well-deserved break, and I am always grateful to be given the privilege to address his audience. If one of the other shows that I recorded on this go-around was on Islam, I don't know in what sequence they'll be played. But today I want to take a different view and talk about the whole issue of the abuse of our visa and immigration policy, especially the H-1B business visas that people come to work, the large number of abuse that is taking place there and the caliber of people you're getting as a result of that. Now to set the record straight, let me reintroduce myself. I'm a first-generation immigrant. My name again is Krish Dhanam. You can check me out on YouTube. I have a small channel that just grows organically, and I have many different videos there on social commentary.
Krish Dhanam: But most of them happen to be videos that deal with my corporate work as a business consultant and speaker and my evangelistic work as an apologist for the Lord Jesus Christ, both here in the United States and globally. By God's good grace, as we record this particular episode, I am celebrating my 40th anniversary today to that bride who brought me to the United States all those years ago, landed here with nine dollars in my pocket, did it legally on the 10th of February. I remember carrying all my required belongings by the embassy. These included a medical clearance and police clearance. Then you go and you tell the guy at the embassy gate, the United States Marine guarding the United States Embassy in New Delhi, India, that you have an appointment to submit your paperwork. The line was always long, but this was 40 years ago. The systems were much more rigid in those days. The format was much more direct. The loopholes were very limited. It was before the computer age where people could fabricate. It was before the printing age where people could create documentation. It was before the mills that were created to create these fake degrees.
Krish Dhanam: I'll never forget when I landed in the United States on March 1 of 1986. Indians were revered very highly because only the greatest talent could make it to the American universities in those days. It was all scholarship and it was academically inclined, and these people went on to get good jobs. Some of them are leading some of the biggest technology companies today. But I was very proud of the fact that when I landed here, there was this aura about Indians and their work ethic, whether they were doctors, whether they were engineers, whether they were in the academic sector. I was considered the least gifted of all of them academically, professionally. I had not succeeded the way that many of the others had made it. But I found my little slice of the American dream. I went to work for Mr. Zig Ziglar, who then trained me to be a communicator and then unleashed me on the world to go sell his philosophies and his components. So that's a Reader's Digest version of my background. The aforementioned Mr. Zig Ziglar, that motivational maven, that legend, the quintessential genius of our times in my mind, was the one who eventually had the honor on his life to lead me to the Lord Jesus Christ. So I was raised as a Hindu and practiced a lot of the Orthodox Hindu traditions, married a Christian girl, and that's my beginning of my journey in America.
Krish Dhanam: Now when I look back 40 years later, as the Dean of the Patriot Institute at the Patriot Academy in Fredericksburg, Texas, I now teach American history, biblical citizenship, civics, rule of law, immigration, apologetics, worldviews, any number of social constructs that deal with life, living, and that pursuit. The very Declaration is very interesting in the way it was set up. It says we are guaranteed some inalienable rights, that among them are life and liberty, but the pursuit of happiness is a qualifier. Never again, never before in the annals of American history was happiness a guarantee, was security something that was assuredIt was freedom. It was enterprise. It was free enterprise. And it was the land of the free, the home of the brave. When you remember the voyages made by Kit Carson and Fremont there, and then the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the northwest frontier, and the Fremont and Carson expeditions that eventually got to California, the frontiersmen who built America, and then the great industrial revolution in America, and then those giants like JP Morgan and Rockefeller in oil, and when you look at some of those things, Vanderbilt in railways and so on, it's an amazing part to look at American history past.
Krish Dhanam: But then again, as we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of that signing of the Declaration, and this July would be the 250th birthday, much has changed. More has changed in the last 40 years than has happened in the first 210. And let me bring that to your attention. Immigration is a privilege. Seeking asylum, whether it's a refugee of political pursuit, whether it's religious persecution, whether it's any number of things, dissent in the former Red China, whether it's escaping the famines of Ireland, the potato famine, whether it's trying to escape the brutality of Mao in the Rape of Nanking and the Boxer Rebellion, whether it is people seeking a better life post-Vietnam when we had a failed attempt in Southeast Asia. Migration patterns have been there throughout human history. People have always found a way to go from one place to the other: A, to seek a better opportunity; B, to seek a newer frontier; C, to seek a new stability; D, to provide something for their families so the generations after would have a better life. I went west for that very reason. I wanted my son to have a better chance, and God knows he does. I wanted my wife and I to have a very equal footing. India did not have very many opportunities at that time. And so when I came to the West, America was a very different place. It was bright, it was open, it was shining, but there was a slight cultural shift that was beginning in this land of Reagan. That shining city on the hill speech that Arnold Schwarzenegger said motivated him was the same one that motivated me.
Krish Dhanam: The great Ronald Reagan was president when I arrived here. But you see, very quickly on its heels we went through that four-year period where the former president George W. Bush, the elder, made some promises in his campaign and violated the promises immediately as soon as he got to the world. No new taxes, read my lips — that was the moniker. He was a one-term president, and America, in looking for change, decided that it was time. That ushered in the era of William Clinton. Bill Clinton and his time in office was marked with great economic prosperity, a budget that was balanced. Now whether you give that credit to him and his fiscal restraint or whether you give it to the Congress that was being led by Newt Gingrich, that's entirely up to you.
Krish Dhanam: But then began the scandals, and then began the change on the moral front, because even though he was accused and the accusations were proven true and we danced the death of a thousand qualifications, the popular rhetoric in the market was the budget is balanced, the economy is doing well, it's the economy, stupid. So the morality of a CEO does not matter. Now I bring this to you because years later when we had 45 and 47, suddenly the morality of the CEO mattered again. The economy was always doing good, his business deals were slightly different, they were unconventional, they came from the business world and not the political world.
Krish Dhanam: Now all this to set the stage anthropologically was a period of 1990 where something was beginning to happen as a cultural shift. Those that were coming into this country no longer had to have an allegiance to the United States because the fractured nature of the populace was half the country that was welcoming these people was welcoming them for opportunity, and the other half was trying to sneak them in so that they would have stability. I've often said this in the forums I've spoken — and I've spoken in many public forums as a public speaker, I do about 120 events a year somewhere around the globe — I said I don't think the conservatives will ever or the Republicans will ever solve the immigration problem because they always have relied on cheap labor.
Krish Dhanam: The Democrats, the liberals, will never solve the immigration problem because they have a desire and a need for unending votes. This gerrymandering we're hearing about has been going on since the beginning of time. If you ideologically take away New York and California, which historically always vote blue, the rest of the country is pretty much red. So we have two dictums coming from either coast, and this is the elite nature of how America's political system works. The reason I say that is well-meaning Republicans get into office because they say I'm going to shut down the borders, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that, and very soon the money becomes too enticing.
Krish Dhanam: Now I've often advocated for term limits in a different way, but I think our founding fathers already injected term limits into our lexicon. They were not given as a moratorium on the amount of time you would serve. They were given as a moratorium that if you didn't fulfill your electoral mandate, you'd be voted out. But for some reason even the worst incumbent always wins. There is something in the money apparatus that does not allow an incumbent to lose except in a weird case when an incumbent will lose, and then of course you get some fringe lunatic who ends up doing word salads in Munich because he can't get a sentence together on the policy of Taiwan and China.
Krish Dhanam: I'm a layperson, an immigrant from India just studying geopolitics. If you asked me that question in a public forum, any third grader with half a sense would know how to answer it. But these are the people ruling us. These are the people governing us. These are the people who are the gatekeepers for immigration policy. They don't understand the sovereignty of America and the preservation of this great republic because they don't look at it through the lens of the history that we have fought to get here. When the Sinai revolution took place — and I get this from Oz Guinness' book The Magna Carta of Humanity — when the Sinai revolution took place and the people were leaving Egypt as an exodus because Moses had now freed the slaves from the Pharaoh, that was the first time a group of people gathered together and built a nation with no king in charge. Fast forward, that was only replicated at the American Revolution when George Washington, as the commander in chief of the Continental Army, resigned his commission saying if I stayed in power as a general I would be doing exactly what the other people, we accuse the others of, and King George had said here must lie the smartest man or the greatest man that has ever lived.
Krish Dhanam: So the Sinai revolution was only followed by the American Revolution, where in this process of assuring that unprecedented freedom, as Benjamin Franklin's great words — they say some say it may be a myth, some say it never happened — but I still think it's a great set of words, whoever said it: a republic, if you can keep it. Now we are a constitutional republic, which means we elect these people to take care of our rights. We pledge our lives, our sacred honor so that they can preserve it for us — at least that's the intended purpose. We have X number of people, depending on the populace, going into Congress and two senators per state, and those checks and balances have held us really well till the ugly 90s. In the 90s the political climate shifted a little bit. Morality was now no longer a part of the lexicon. Legality and morality were defined suddenly. Nine people in black robes were going to decide, whereas the very foundation of this nation was built on the fact that those people should have been third in command. They were supposed to just enforce a law, not interpret it.
Krish Dhanam: The legislator was always going to be the most powerful, the executive second, and the judiciary third. But because we failed to have dialogue, because we failed to have dictum, because we failed to have decency, our executive branch was now put on the back burner. The legislative branch just came to a loggerhead. Everybody was filibustering everybody else. Those that actually were able to get bought in some way ended up being on the fringe, either a no vote or a delayed vote or an in absentia. And the reason I'm saying all of this is these people are well-meaning on both sides. They want to serve their cause. A liberal gets up and says, hey, I want to serve the cause. The conservative gets up and says, I want to serve the cause. And then within a very few short moments, something amazing begins to happen.
Krish Dhanam: The money increases. A former Speaker of the House has now got a net worth of 300-plus million dollars. I don't know how you do that on $175,000 salary unless you're extremely lucky or always have been very, very brilliant on the right side of gravity. Now I've worked my tail off for going on 40 years. I've always been dependent on other people, whether I make a speech to get some income, whether I work for a company, whether I get a consulting contract, whether I have a retainer. But I know that there is no way, even within the norms of what I have earned — which is a pretty decent living — you're able to buy a house in suburbia and live the American dream and then in four years go from there to a net worth of $5 million without having done anything different, which means on the social scale all I've done is showed up for work and my job is giving me $175,000 a year and I get health care.
Krish Dhanam: Now the reason I'm setting all of this up is immigration takes a very different kind of responsibility. Are you going to enforce the law? Are borders always going to be bigoted? Is sovereignty a sin? Now the reason I ask this question is I'm going to now begin to touch on this big mass immigration fraud we have had within the Somali community, and it was all done legitimately because they were all repatriated there. Now you repatriate 100,000 people, you create a constituency. Very quickly you realize that if you grant them the right to vote — which many of them have — then they're going to elect one of their own, and suddenly you have a woman in Congress who actually came from the elite opposition party in her own country, but nobody does their homework because nobody reads. We dance to the tune of whatever the media soundbite is.
Krish Dhanam: So in the 90s with the Bill Clinton era and subsequently after that we have had what? We have had three or four news channels covering the news and they were propagating their propaganda left, right, and center. None of this is new because in 1984 Neil Postman wrote a book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, and he articulated how carefully coiffured people getting 20 million dollars a year who look nothing like you and me are in the evening giving us the news. So whatever topic it is, it has to be sanitized to fit its audience. Never is the truth offered as truth. It is always offered as a partisan soundbite. So if someone is colored like me or mixed or I'm brown, then you're going to give the soundbite in a way that that culture doesn't get offended. Now as I mentioned when I began, that the original visas were given to the very educated. Now you get someone in India — the internet age has begun — they realize, okay, in America nobody is looking at your credentials. You tell them you have a master's in computer science, they believe you have a master's in computer science. You produce a certificate that looks legitimate. Because of the time zone, nobody is calling the university or the affiliate institution in India to find out if you really graduated. So 100,000 certificates are printed and those certificates are sold.
Krish Dhanam: Then you get in touch with someone here who has legitimately been here for a number of years. He figures out that the government has untold amounts of money that can go to you as a perennial flow if you will just make sure that a minority person gets the job. Now minority is a broad description. Minority basically looks like in America today anybody who's not white. So what happens is a brown person would qualify as a minority. A person from any other part of the world would confer the minority. Originally when the concept started, women and minority-owned businesses were for African Americans and for women. That's how that began. But how that process has been abused is fascinating. So the Department of Commerce or someone will usher out, give you like a billion-dollar loan because they have the money. There's no accountability there, as we found out through USAID. So as a result, a billion dollars is now suddenly sitting, or access to it over the next five years, in someone's lap in a small town in Texas. He calls the guys in India and says, hey, you know what, I'm going to start a company that is going to do XYZ. The company is legitimate. It is registered as a legitimate company. The State Department accepts it as a legitimate company. The Commerce Department gives it the grants, whatever it is. And I'm giving you a broad brush because if you follow the thread that's exactly what will probably happen.
Krish Dhanam: So now you run an advertisement in India saying that, you know, we have all this money. We require X number of people. The H-1B is designed for that. The H-1B is designed to bring qualified people to work jobs here that the typical American will not do or cannot do or chose not to do, whatever. But these are all mainstream jobs which are not even offered to the American because the ad is never placed here. The ad is placed in India. It's placed in some setting that the traditional American would not even read. So 100 Indians would apply for it because they all got fake degrees on the other side, I'm assuming. Well, someone has the fake degrees if they just busted a guy who produced 100,000 of them. I'm pretty sure a few made it over here too.
Krish Dhanam: Now I have a degree. It's from an institute in India, and I can show you and I can actually, as part of the alumni of that organization, say that our organization still exists and it's one of the thriving ones in India. So I'm just sharing with you a few facts here. Now the H-1B lottery is basically, hey, we've got X 100,000 visas that are going to be given in this category. We've got 50,000 visas that are going to be given in that category. And basically your employer has to pay X hundred dollars or X thousand dollars, and your name will get into that visa. What ends up happening now becomes the thing is you apply in multiple different categories. You also apply with probably different names. You switch the name around a little bit. You switch the degree around a little bit. And suddenly you're in three or four different H-1B pools. The odds may start catching up with you. Again, I'm saying a majority of them are probably legitimate, and I don't want anybody to jump all over the place. But I'm just saying if you allow a fence to drop, ask yourself why it was up there in the first place.
Krish Dhanam: Very soon you'll have people coming into one particular locality, let's say Frisco, Texas, where a preponderance of people happen to be on these H-1B visas. Now when I came as a migrant to this country and I had a green card as soon as I landed because my wife was born here, and I had a job within about 20 days of coming here, Anila and I never decided on buying a house till we at least knew we could afford it. So how are these people all living in these big houses and driving Tesla cars? Because their salaries are astronomical based on the funding that those companies have received. You suddenly get $150,000 a year. You don't have to go to a job. Your house can be written off as an income, whatever it is.
Krish Dhanam: I never had this luxury, and I'm just curious — more curious — because when I talk to these people, their English is suspect, their language skills are bad, their social skills struggle a little bit. So how are they enjoying the American dream in a mainstream without involving themselves in anything, integrating themselves in anything, and staying on the fringe? And before we knew it, large numbers of communities, large numbers of temples, large numbers of statues, and before you knew it the people who came to America for the American dream in a different way of life have recreated what they left. My question to them, if any of them ever listen, is why did you emigrate if your only goal was to change every attribute of where you got from — cuisine and culture to stores and establishments to meals and provisions and to worship — and make it look like what you left? Anyhow, that's my take on this. So when we come back after the break, we'll dissect some more about the genuine nature of this. Until then, this is Krish Dhanam. More after the break. Welcome back, dear friends. This is Krish Dhanam filling in for Todd Huff on The Todd Huff Show, the home of conservative not bitter.
Krish Dhanam: We started looking at this whole immigration issue, speaking from the heart of a fellow immigrant, wondering why everybody who has migrated after the 90s seems not to have a love for America but almost a genuine disdain for America. They all vote blue. They all get themselves elected into office. When I look at some of the people in Congress that came from the land of my birth — the woman in Washington, D.C., the guy from California, the gentleman from Michigan — when I look at how they articulate, either with venom or the guy from Michigan who can't say a string of words together, I ask myself how did these guys get elected? And then I realize they've been elected by a 75% white electorate in some cases. And is this just in the desire to be liked or a desire to destabilize? Therein comes the second component: follow the money. Because I ask myself, would these people stack up to a Thomas Jefferson who was writing a Declaration at the age of 32? Would these people stack up to a John Quincy Adams, who at the age of seven had diplomatic credentials to follow his father to France? Would these people stack up against General George Washington? I don't think any of us would.
Krish Dhanam: Those were great men who did something unprecedented in the annals of human history. Even fast forward and if you look at the 70s and the 80s or post–World War II, when America — the majority of the corporations in America — were run by people who had discipline and dignity because they all came out of the war. I'm not a big fan of Tom Brokaw's policies or his politics, but I am a big fan of the book The Greatest Generation. I would encourage you to read it. You see some of these stories. They're true Horatio Alger stories of our time. There is great motivation in the people who have stood tall and walked proud. Ronald Reagan, for example. So where have our heroes gone? Where have our true giants gone? Hollywood cannot have the likes of a John Wayne anymore who told it like it was. The golden era, they call it. But when you look at the actors like Burt Lancaster and Gregory Peck, I'm pretty sure they all had skeletons in their closet, but the poise and the dignity those people showed, just their composure at an award show instead of the shrieking vitriol we now see. This split of America is why it's allowed our immigration policy, I think, to be abused, because everybody out there who hates America almost has an easier way to get in than the legitimate contender who has the degree, who has the desire, who has the qualifications, who has the ability to come here and immediately make an impact on society, and they are asked to stand in line and wait seven and eight years, getting rejection after rejection because all the quotas are full.
Krish Dhanam: There was a period of four years under the previous administration where our southern border was letting in thousands of people. Historically, the picture always is worth a thousand words, right? Any picture of people actually fleeing persecution, like the Somalis claimed, actually fleeing religious persecution would include a bunch of men, women, and children with their belongings, not overnight brought on a chartered plane and dropped off in Minneapolis and Maine. They would go to a border and literally wait there while they processed — tents on one side, Red Cross on the other side — they would come through. If you go back to the 1905 horizon time frame and you see the Statue of Liberty now erected in the New York Harbor, historians say ships were lined as far as you could see, but they had to come to Ellis Island and get processed. The word processing is out of the window now because if somehow you manage to step on American soil, you're immediately dispatched to 19 different places in America and given an immigration court hearing that you don't even need to make because they can't find you.
Krish Dhanam: And if you believe that, I've got some land I'd like to sell you that is swampland, but I want to convince you it's actually oceanfront. What do you mean they can't find these people? Are we really going to round up 11 million and deport them? The question is not rounding up and deporting people. The question is why can't we find them? Folks, if I don't pay my taxes for three years in a row, I am pretty sure someone is going to come knocking and ask me why I didn't do it. They know where you are. Every algorithm on every social media platform, if you post something, will immediately have an ad for it about four seconds later, and suddenly you're looking. If you post luxury items, suddenly cruises are put there, and if you poverty syndicate, you get a coupon. But they know what you're doing. Every device that everybody has ever held in the last 10 years has given us complete — from anonymity to complete identity — and to tell me you can't find these people because you're going to tell me that they'd be disenfranchised, that someone cannot get an ID, folks, this is stupid.
Krish Dhanam: So you come in on an immigrant visa. You come in on a non-immigrant visa. You overstay your visa and you're staying in someone's house, and then the census bureau dude comes by and he says, okay, how many people in this house? So we have six people in this house. Okay, we'll mark six and we'll go on. Then they get together in a cabal somewhere and say, okay, this particular place has X number of people. Their population has increased by so-and-so, so we need to give them two additional congressional seats. Well, half the people counted are not even supposed to be here. Apparently we couldn't find them. We went up to their house and we just asked them a question — how many people live here — and they told you, and you believed that. This is the state of affairs.
Krish Dhanam: Now you go to one small community, either in Sugar Land, Texas or Frisco, Texas, and you see entire households filled with people — father, mother visiting — how many people live here? And suddenly you begin to realize why the system allows this to happen. Lord Acton was right all those years ago when he says power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you're a sitting member of Congress and you truly believe that someone is disenfranchised just to produce their ID, I would like to have a conversation with you. I've been in this country 40 years. I've had an ID for a license to drive a car. I've had to show that to get on a plane. During COVID I had to show a COVID vaccination certificate to go anywhere. I had to tell people everywhere that I had been this and had been that. So telling me that it's not possible because we disenfranchise on voting, but it is possible to go and buy alcohol is dumb. It makes zero sense.
Krish Dhanam: But the question is not the sense. The question is how did we get here and now elect people who are perpetuating the same stupidity? If someone who has come here and lives in this country is now filing articles of impeachment against a man and they can't string two sentences together as to why they're filing the articles of impeachment — he can't answer a single question in English — I'm looking at myself and saying, okay, this guy is probably educated because he ran a successful company at one time. But what is his difference and my difference that they didn't even make the effort to integrate? Why is the current immigrant in this country, a majority of them who are brought in or smuggled in, so bent on irritating the system instead of majority of us who immigrated in the 80s and 90s — I'm venturing all the way to 2000s — had a vested interest to make this place better? We were proud to become an American citizen.
Krish Dhanam: The goal to come here was not to have a baby so that someone can come here later. The goal to become a citizen was not so that your entire family can come here. The goal to get a green card was not so that everybody can suddenly move here. Excuse me. I'm getting a little riled up, but as Mr. Ziglar says, I'm just getting warmed up. The seeking is genuine, I think, for some of the people. The settling is a goal. I had a bad deal where I was. The environment is good. But if that's the case, how come the social component is just a game? How come when you have extra money you don't give it to the battered women's shelter in this country? How come you don't give it to the Salvation Army in this country? How come every extra dollar you have, every extra dollar you made, every extra piece of money you give, you do nothing to improve the betterment of other people here? You just collect and make something better for your own self and your own community. In my mind, as an immigrant, I think that's selfish.
Krish Dhanam: It's not that I'm a Christian and came from a different worldview or challenge anything, but the reality is that. Why is that? Why don't I see anybody who's a first-generation migrant in this country volunteer in an American prison to go and teach compassion? My Bible tells me what you've done to the least of these you did for me also, and that's why I started doing prison work. But people always ask me why do you do prison work? I'm surprised they'll raise a lot of money for education in India. Isn't that fascinating? You come to America, you benefit from this country, you get educated in this country, you start a foundation in this country, and the amount you raise — and I've been at these events — the amount you raise is staggering, but it is all sent back to get education in India.
Krish Dhanam: The only thing you've done here is you bought a house and you've made everything in that house look like where you came from, which is fine, that's culture. But the social component fascinates me and it also flabbergasts me. I don't see them anywhere outside their own communities. This is maybe Little Italy, maybe Little Somalia, maybe Little India, maybe whatever little. I don't care. The reality is integration after immigration is what this country was designed on. This is why we had those great experiments of the 80s and the 90s of the 1800s. When people came here — Polish families with broken English that had to flee the persecution of Adolf Hitler as Jewish people during the Holocaust — would insist that their kids spoke English.
Krish Dhanam: That's fine, but our goal here should not be a one-upmanship. Our goal should not be that we are better than you, so we're not going to integrate. Our goal should never be that we're doing something different. Welcome back to the final segment of The Todd Huff Show, the home of conservative not bitter. This is your humble host, Krish Dhanam. As the old Dennis Miller used to say, I'm sorry to get off on a rant here, but I guess that's what I did. I am truly grateful to America. I'm truly grateful that I was allowed as an immigrant here.
Krish Dhanam: And I've shared with this audience before, my wife was born in this country but raised in India. She became an American citizen in India because when she left the United States, she left on her mom's passport. So she didn't have an Indian identity. And she went to the U.S. Embassy along with her parents, and because she had an American birth certificate from Michigan, she was allowed to become an American citizen in India. And when I decided to come to America, I just followed her. Some product of technically whatever that birthright is — if it's ever negated, and hopefully it's not retroactive — I'm honest to tell you this, I will be the first one to pack up and leave. I won't petition. I won't fight. Now it won't go back that far. Maybe it may never get passed. And if it does, it'll probably be for the future. But that's just me being complacent with myself or compassionate with myself.
Krish Dhanam: I truly believe that immigration is a privilege. It is not a right. Following the laws of immigration is our duty and our responsibility. When I landed in New York all those years ago, clutching all of my declarations that they'd given me in India, and I had this really long South Indian name that had four initials next to it, so on the top of my X-ray it was one side and the other side my whole name was still going, and the immigration officer looked at it and he said, man, that's a long name. But one good thing will happen. When you do become a citizen of this country, you'll be able to shorten it. And I did.
Krish Dhanam: But I'll never forget he processed me for two hours in that dark room or that gray room. There was no great story there. He offered me coffee, and I thought, wow, this would have never happened in India. My wife, who went through the line — that back then there were two lines. One said citizen. The other said others. There were not 1,800 different languages and 14 different ways in which to get it. Two lines: citizens, others. Similar with voting. Can you prove you're a citizen? If not, you shouldn't be allowed to vote. As simple as that. There's no disenfranchisement. If you live in this country, you should have an ID that proves you're in this country. How hard is that? Apparently it's hard because there are all these people in this country that are somehow in the 250 years of our independence, somehow lost in the system, that if you get married your marriage certificate suddenly has another name and just that consternation of carrying an additional piece of paper so you can have that sovereign right, that sacred right to vote. Fascinating. When my bride came into the room and knocked on the door because she was getting impatient that she was waiting outside and it had been an hour and a half and I'm being processed — right word — this guy typing one thing at a time on an old word processor, I'll never forget what he told her. Ma'am, if we do it right the first time he'll never have to look over his shoulder again. That's all it is. Whatever it is, whether it's your vote, whether it's your visa, whether it's your status, whether it's your house, folks, deeply tied into the moral clause is imperative because it has to be before the legal clause.
Krish Dhanam: A God-given morality that presupposes a God-given moral law from a God who was the moral lawgiver. Anything else opens it up to violation, to suspect. So you can have a house and you can say yes, my house can have 20 businesses in it. That's legitimate. It's allowed. But in your heart you know that it's just a shell. You're using that address because you had a privilege and you're now going to abuse that privilege to see if you can make some money on it. If you're telling me at the end of the day all these millions of people that have crossed over and have been given sanctuary and have been given $4,000 cards and $8,000 homes — if you're telling me all of this is done for benevolence because you have a great charitable heart, then use your own money. Stop using mine.
Krish Dhanam: You know Margaret Thatcher said socialism is brilliant until you run out of other people's money. And now you find out that this money belongs to no one. It's this endless slush fund that was called USAID, brought in the guise of hunger and humanitarian aid, siphoned off by every person whose spouse suddenly is a consultant in humanity. Wow. I can talk for hours on this, but hopefully I got you riled up on two things in the two shows we have done. Folks, beware Islam is here and their goal is total domination of the West. If Texas migrates, state falls, America will fall, and if America falls so goes Western civilization. The visa scams that are taking place right under your nose are being done twofold. A, someone's benefiting. You're not. B, the jobs are going to someone. It's not to you. C, the money is being kept within them, building their own temples, building their own commissaries, building their own restaurants, repatriated to their own companies and to their own communities in their own parts of the world. You get zero benefit from it.
Krish Dhanam: What do the people who you have around you who are allowing this get? The ability to be voted in again because they have a D after their name, a blue in their state, and a desire for unfettered access to perpetuity. I don't know whether the problem can be solved in my generation, but my prayer to the living God is that I will see some solutions in the land of the living. We are losing so much ground every day, and I can't believe that this is the land of Lincoln. My brother fought against brother to liberate the change, and yet here we are fighting an intellectual battle that we seem to be losing ground daily. Ignorance seems to have an unending platform. Go to your churches. Go to your pastors. Ask for education on how we can be and make our Christian identity, our conservative identity, our love for our country — God, family, country in that sequence — come alive. Until I get a chance to host again, this is your good friend Krish Dhanam, Krish Dhanam signing off. God bless.
