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Do you have a source for Steve Bannon's argument?

by m52go 10y ago

moultano 10y ago
https://www.google.com/amp/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/11/16/13653490/steve-bannon-trump-presidency-chief-strategist-breitbart-tech-visa?client=ms-android-google https://www.google.com/amp/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/201...
cr1895 10y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bannon-explained-his-worldview-well-before-it-became-official-us-policy/2017/01/31/2f4102ac-e7ca-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bannon-explained-his... FTA: On a March 2016 episode, Bannon said that restoring sovereignty meant reducing immigration. In his radio shows, he criticized the federal H-1B visa programs that permit U.S. companies to fill technical positions with workers from overseas. The “progressive plutocrats in Silicon Valley,” Bannon said, want unlimited ability to go around the world and bring people back to the United States. “Engineering schools,” Bannon said, “are all full of people from South Asia, and East Asia. . . . They’ve come in here to take these jobs.” Meanwhile, Bannon said, American students “can’t get engineering degrees; they can’t get into these graduate schools because they are all foreign students. When they come out, they can’t get a job.” “Don’t we have a problem with legal immigration?” asked Bannon repeatedly. “Twenty percent of this country is immigrants. Is that not the beating heart of this problem?” he said, meaning the problem of native-born Americans being unable to find jobs and rising wages. _____ edit: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/steve-bannon-legal-immigration-problem http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/ste... A Vox piece provides a more detailed transcript of Bannon's views: "BANNON: You saw these guest workers. You saw the CIS report yesterday. You saw that, what is it, 61 million? Isn’t the beating heart of this problem, the real beating heart of it, of what we gotta get sorted here, is not illegal immigration? As horrific as that is, and it’s horrific, don’t we have a problem, we’ve looked the other way on this legal immigration that’s kinda overwhelmed the country? When you look and there’s got 61 million, 20 percent of the country, is immigrants — is that not a massive problem? You were with Jeff Sessions for many, many years. Is that not the beating heart of this problem?"
- Bartweiss 10y ago
  Ugh, thanks. Beyond the obvious awfulness, the "progressive plutocrats" bit is impressively slimy. I guess he had to name their politics to differentiate them from Trump's record as a plutocrat employing immigrants at (illegally) low wages?
dragonwriter 10y ago
Cited in my other post about it in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598624

Do you have a source for Steve Bannon's argument?

by m52go 10y ago

Do you have a source for Steve Bannon's argument?

https://www.google.com/amp/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/11/16/13653490/steve-bannon-trump-presidency-chief-strategist-breitbart-tech-visa?client=ms-android-google https://www.google.com/amp/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/201...

cr1895 10y ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bannon-explained-his-worldview-well-before-it-became-official-us-policy/2017/01/31/2f4102ac-e7ca-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bannon-explained-his... FTA: On a March 2016 episode, Bannon said that restoring sovereignty meant reducing immigration. In his radio shows, he criticized the federal H-1B visa programs that permit U.S. companies to fill technical positions with workers from overseas. The “progressive plutocrats in Silicon Valley,” Bannon said, want unlimited ability to go around the world and bring people back to the United States. “Engineering schools,” Bannon said, “are all full of people from South Asia, and East Asia. . . . They’ve come in here to take these jobs.” Meanwhile, Bannon said, American students “can’t get engineering degrees; they can’t get into these graduate schools because they are all foreign students. When they come out, they can’t get a job.” “Don’t we have a problem with legal immigration?” asked Bannon repeatedly. “Twenty percent of this country is immigrants. Is that not the beating heart of this problem?” he said, meaning the problem of native-born Americans being unable to find jobs and rising wages. _____ edit: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/steve-bannon-legal-immigration-problem http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/ste... A Vox piece provides a more detailed transcript of Bannon's views: "BANNON: You saw these guest workers. You saw the CIS report yesterday. You saw that, what is it, 61 million? Isn’t the beating heart of this problem, the real beating heart of it, of what we gotta get sorted here, is not illegal immigration? As horrific as that is, and it’s horrific, don’t we have a problem, we’ve looked the other way on this legal immigration that’s kinda overwhelmed the country? When you look and there’s got 61 million, 20 percent of the country, is immigrants — is that not a massive problem? You were with Jeff Sessions for many, many years. Is that not the beating heart of this problem?"

Bartweiss 10y ago
Ugh, thanks. Beyond the obvious awfulness, the "progressive plutocrats" bit is impressively slimy. I guess he had to name their politics to differentiate them from Trump's record as a plutocrat employing immigrants at (illegally) low wages?

dragonwriter 10y ago

Cited in my other post about it in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598624