Thread: Steve Bannon: 'We're a Nation of Citizens; We're Not a Nation of Immigrants'

Steve Bannon: ‘We’re a Nation of Citizens; We’re Not a Nation of Immigrants’

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by JOHN BINDER11 Nov 2017Washington, D.C.


Breitbart News Executive Chairman and former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon says the United States is a “nation of citizens” and “not a nation of immigrants” in Keith Koffler’s new book titled Bannon: Always the Rebel.

In the book, Bannon shoots down a generational campaign by Washington, D.C. politicians and the open borders and cheap labor lobby that describes the founding of America as one based on a “melting pot” of immigrants.


Bannon says the U.S. is founded on its citizens, and therefore the needs of its citizens should come before those of foreign nations and foreign nationals.


Koffler details in the book:

Bannon says, “We’re a nation of citizens; we’re not a nation of immigrants,” correcting what he believes is a common misperception. “So now we have to start to act like citizens come first. All policy should be oriented to making the working people in this country and the middle class in this country have a better shot at success. And we’ve gotten away from that. What we’ve done is brought in huge global competition for their jobs, for their schools.”


Bannon, on his Breitbart radio show, interviewed Trump on November 19, 2015. At the time, Trump was more liberal on immigration than Bannon was, making the case that the United States should try to keep talented foreign-born students. “When somebody is going to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Stanford, all the greats, and they graduate, and not only graduate, but do great, and we throw them out of the country, and they can’t get back in, I think that’s terrible. We’ve got to be able to keep great people in the country.” Trump said. “We have to be careful of that, Steve. You know, we have to keep our talented people in this country.”


Bannon: “Um.”

Trump: “I think you agree with that. Do you agree with that?”

Bannon did not. “A country’s more than an economy,” he said.

“We’re a civic society.”

The book further explains Bannon’s assertion of how mass illegal and legal immigration — where the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million immigrants into the country every year — turns a profit for wealthy CEOs and big business, but is a detriment to American workers who see their wages stagnate for more than a decade and their jobs being taken by foreign nationals.


Bannon explains in the book:

The low-skill, low-wage, non-English speaking people entering the United States from Mexico are taking jobs from Americans, Bannon strongly believes. “The people most affected by illegal alien labor, is the black working class and the Hispanic working class,” he said. “Go into the inner city. That’s why they’re not paying a guy 12 bucks or 13 bucks to flip burgers at McDonald’s. Because they don’t have to! They get all the labor they want.”


Bannon seeks not just to end illegal immigration, but he wants to vastly curb legal immigration and reduce the number of refugees the United States takes. “Until we have the black working class and the Hispanic working class getting high-value-added jobs, we’ve failed as a society. To me: citizens first. And we don’t need a million immigrants in this country. Particularly, we don’t need a million immigrants that don’t come with a real set of skills.”

Koffler’s Bannon: Always the Rebel will be released for purchase on November 13 but can be pre-ordered on Amazon.




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CITIZEN'S FIRST

NO AMNESTY

NO PATH TO STAY

DEPORT THEM ALL

CUT OFF THE ANCHOR BABIES AND FREEBIES!

The American people have fallen for or accepted sound bites that sound just so kind/sweet/compassionate, but have a very different purpose. The 'we are a nation of immigrants' is one of them..

We need to begin to look at all these ideas that get put out there that sounds oh so good. We need to dissect them, before we embrace them, accept them, or even tolerate them.

We, the people of this country and this country, have few friends in the governments, city to federal. We have even fewer in the news media, or social engineers of this country. So when we hear all these ideas that sound so good, remember who is probably putting it out and ask what exactly is their agenda.

I never thought "we are a nation of immigrants" sounded good.

Originally Posted by Judy

I never thought "we are a nation of immigrants" sounded good.

No, we didn't - but many of us knew the truth to begin with, many didn't.

I was trying to say we need to be very careful following any government, media or 'popular' pronouncement or promise - especially government. Since we know for sure neither the government nor the media is working for the American people or the country, we need to be careful when they present us with some action that seems to be a benefit to us.

We don't need to think 'if it sounds too good to be true - it probably is'. We just need to think 'if it sounds good for us and the government is proposing it - it probably isn't.'

If we had open borders to allow any Tom, Dick and Harry in, and the entire world's population came pouring in, we would be immediately destroyed as a nation. We have immigration laws for a reason, and there is no reason or justified reasoning to allow people to come here illegally.

Nations, tribes, and other groups that did not control their borders and immigration are no longer nations and tribes or have lost all they once had.

A nation without borders is just a patch of land.