A row erupted after former DOGE adviser and Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback hit back at Vivek Ramaswamy over his comments about the “American Dream.”Ramaswamy is running for governor in Ohio and posted on X defending the uniqueness of American opportunity and dismissing the idea of other national ideals. “There’s no ‘Canadian Dream.’ There’s no ‘British Dream.’ There’s no ‘Chinese Dream.’ It’s called the American Dream for a reason. It’s what makes American exceptionalism possible,” he said.Fishback is an outspoken critic of immigration programs and H1-B. He replied. “There’s no ‘American Dream’ when H-1Bs can come here and steal our jobs and dignity. I’m running for Florida Governor to end the H-1B scam so our workers can get great paying jobs again,” he said.Fishback has built his campaign around restricting immigration. The Florida candidate has repeatedly claimed that the H-1B programme blocks opportunities for US workers and unfairly benefits Indians. He has argued that even immigrants who later become citizens should not be part of the American Dream.The ex-DOGE advisor formally launched his campaign last week, telling CNN that Americans are being pushed out of entry-level jobs. “You have got recent college graduates in my home state of Florida who cannot get jobs. We are the hungriest, smartest, and most brilliant people on Earth. The idea of importing cheap labourers for entry level accounting or IT workers from India and China is preposterous,” he said. When challenged on why he is targeting Indians, who make up less than one per cent of Florida’s population, he replied: “I single out Indian Americans not because they are Indian Americans; I single them out because they receive about 77 per cent of all H-1B visas. I don’t hate immigrants, but I love our own people.”Fishback has also repeated that if elected, he would terminate every H-1B visa holder in the state.
