In a viral quote-tweet of U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen's lament over Trump's immigration crackdown allegedly crippling Colorado's ski industry—which she claims relies on 60% J-1 visa workers for essential roles—job site, Barefoot Student fires back by exposing the program's dark underbelly: ski resorts dodge FICA payroll taxes on these foreign "guest workers," turning America's powder paradise into a haven for trapped, underpaid labor from places like New Zealand and Australia. With over 5,000 likes and 69K views as of November 10, 2025, the post ignites a thread of conservative fury, from calls to boycott resorts hiring J-1s to laments over how private equity vampires have gutted American ski culture, replacing fun seasonal gigs for locals with unlimited, tax-free imports that keep wages stagnant and housing unaffordable.
Holy hell, this is the poster child for why America's been sold out to globalist grifters—Colorado's ski resorts whining about "labor shortages" while exploiting a J-1 visa loophole that's basically indentured servitude with a side of tax evasion, no FICA payments, no housing mandates, and zero proof they even tried hiring broke American college kids who grew up dreaming of those slopes. Rep. Pettersen, that blue-haired Boulder bubble-dweller, cries crocodile tears for her corporate overlords as Trump dares to enforce actual borders, but let's call it what it is: a scam engineered by private equity vultures who jack up lift tickets to $200/day for normies while flooding Vail and Aspen with Aussies and Kiwis at rock-bottom wages, trapping them in dorms like modern serfs so shareholders can ski in caviar dreams. End this bullshit NOW—impose a 10-year visa moratorium, force resorts to hire real Americans (who, shockingly, exist and want those jobs), and watch wages soar as we reclaim our winter wonderlands from the cheap-labor cartel. If Pettersen really cared about Colorado families, she'd be torching these hedge-fund hellholes instead of shilling for them; her sob story just proves Dems are addicted to flooding the market with imports to suppress paychecks and virtue-signal about "diversity" while locals can't afford a season pass. America First isn't a slogan—it's survival, and this J-1 racket is exhibit A in why we need to deport the exploitation, not the enforcers.