Vice President Vance [TPUSA event]: The reason why I try to be the best husband I can be, the best father I can be; the reason why I care so much about all the issues that we're going to talk about, is because I believe that I've been placed in this position, for a brief period of time, to do the most amount of good for God, and for the country that I love so much.

Vice President Vance: Legal immigration is complicated, because we let in about a million legal immigrants into the United States of America every single year, and I think the evidence is pretty clear that a lot of those immigrants are actually undercutting the wages of American workers. It's one of the reasons why the president of the United States, and a lot of us in the administration, have encouraged H-1B reform, because if you look at the H-1B visa, what it's supposed to be, is that you have a super genius who's studying at an American university, who's working at a great company; you want that super genius to stay in the United States of America and not go somewhere else. What it's actually used to do, is hire an accountant at a fifty percent discount to an American citizen. I don't think that we should be hiring accountants from foreign countries when we got accountants right here in the United States that would love to work for a good wage.

Vice President Vance: I do believe that some immigrants, many immigrants, do in fact enrich the United States of America. But here's the problem. We don't even know how many illegal aliens we have. We don't even know. The best guess is probably twenty-five, thirty million people, I've heard estimates as high as fifty million. When something like that happens, you've got to allow your own society to cohere a little bit, to build a sense of common identify, for all the newcomers to assimilate, the ones who are going to stay, to assimilate into American culture. Until you do that, you've got to be careful about any additional immigration, in my view.

Vice President Vance: What's going on with artificial intelligence; we got to be worried about large-scale surveillance. You asked about Palantir, do you know that every time you make a credit card transaction, the credit card companies are collecting data on how you spend your money? You know that every time you linger over a link on the internet for more than a half second, that search engines are collecting data on you so that they can sell you advertisements? One of the biggest questions for American policy over the next ten years, is how to ensure that you are a sovereign citizen, and you can not be a sovereign citizen if any private corporation, or any government, can steal something from you that belongs to you.

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Vice President Vance: I think the most important principal that we have got to remember, is that you do not, you do not, have to completely kick God out of the public square, which is what we've done in modern America. It's not what the founders wanted, it's not good for the United States of America, and anybody who tells you it's required by the Constitution is lying to you.