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Steve Bannon does.
by moultano 10y ago
Steve Bannon does.
- leereeves 10y agoSource?
- otalp 10y agohttp://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13653490/steve-bannon-trump-presidency-chief-strategist-breitbart-tech-visa http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13653490/steve-bannon-tru...
- leereeves 10y agoI was hoping for an actual quote from Bannon that supports that claim, instead of an article that admits: > While Bannon didn’t explicitly say anything against immigrants, then adds the partisan spin: > he seemed to hint ...
- otalp 10y agoI was not the OP who you replied to but I assumed that this was what he was referring to. When asked about students staying back in the country after going to Ivy league schools the quote is “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” Bannon said, not finishing the sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.” Which implies that he would prefer fewer legal immigrants. The three-quarters figure is of course a gross exagerration.
- leereeves 10y ago> Steve Bannon would prefer fewer legal immigrants I think that's a fair characterization of his position. Fewer. But I'm asking about a source for the claim "[Steve Bannon] wants to stop skilled immigrants from coming to America".
- vthallam 10y agoI couldn't find the video, i suppose the soundcloud link on Verge has the audio where he does say we should not keep people who went good American schools. link : https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/breitbart-news-daily-donald-trump-november-2-2015 https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/breitbart-news-daily-donald... The part where he says, "a country is more than a economy, it's also a civic society" in the context that there are more south asian CEO's in silicon valley is terrifying.
- leereeves 10y agoWhere in the recording is the quote you're talking about?
- vthallam 10y agoWatch from 2:32 in the video on this page https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannon-flattered-and-coaxed-trump-on-policies-key-to-the-alt-right/2016/11/15/53c66362-ab69-11e6-a31b-4b6397e625d0_story.html?utm_term=.05c387bc4a92 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannon-flattered...
- leereeves 10y agoThat's still only those few words from Bannon. I'd like to hear the quote in context and not speculate or repeat partisan spin based on one sentence he once said.
- projectramo 10y agohttp://mcfeely.areavoices.com/2017/02/01/bannon-legal-immigration-the-beating-heart-of-americas-problems/ http://mcfeely.areavoices.com/2017/02/01/bannon-legal-immigr... "Isn’t the beating heart of this problem, the real beating heart of it, of what we got to get sorted out here, is not illegal immigration, as horrific as that is and it’s horrific, don’t we have a problem and we’ve looked the other way on this legal immigration..." -- Bannon
- leereeves 10y agoCompleting the quote: "... and how it’s overwhelmed the country? When you look and it’s got 61 million, 20 percent of the country is immigrants. Is that not a massive problem?" I don't know about those numbers, they seem to come from a right-wing think-tank called the Center for Immigration Studies [1], but wasn't Bannon claiming that there are too many immigrants? Which wouldn't be the same as wanting to stop all immigration. 1: http://cis.org/61-Million-Immigrants-and-Their-Young-Children-Now-Live-in-the-United-States http://cis.org/61-Million-Immigrants-and-Their-Young-Childre...
- dragonwriter 10y agoSee a sibling comments to GP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598624