Steve Bannon says the elites are flooding the country with both illegal and legal immigration because it keeps wages low, boosts their profits, and leaves American workers holding the bag.
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BANNON: The Elites Are Using Both Illegal And “Legal” Immigration To Fill Their Coffers. They Import Cheap Labor To Maximize Their Profits And Screw The American Worker
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BANNON: The Elites Are Using Both Illegal And “Legal” Immigration to Fill Their Coffers. They Import Cheap Labor to Maximize Their Profits and Screw the American Worker
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Monday, 8 December, Year of Our Lord, 2025, the day after the commemoration of Pearl Harbor. We have Captain Fanell on here at the top of the next hour to go through all that. Also, an update from Tina Peters. Lawyer sent a detailed memo or letter to the president about making sure she can get a pardon, a federal pardon that rolls down through the Colorado system. A lot going on there.
So we are packed today. Mark Mitchell is going to join us in a moment. And, of course, this weekend was a good example of the intensity of the fight. Every day it is only going to increase, and it is on an accelerating rate, this fight of the direction of the country. This is very basic about what type of republic we are.
Of course, we got Omar lecturing the American people and the founding fathers and the creation of the nation, the revolution, the War of Independence, and then the creation of this nation and lecturing us on what the founding fathers meant.
I think the question now is, and you have got Christy Noem and you got Pete Hegseth. And Kristi and the team and Holman, who they are hammering, you know, they are leaking all these stories now that, you know, they are going to get rid of Kristi. No, they are going to get rid of Pete Hegseth. These are some of the people that are taking action.
And look, folks are sitting there going, well, I do not see mass deportations. They are attempting that. And there is kind of a split within DHS about, do you just go up to the bad hombres or do you focus on mass deportations?
Bottom line is, I think a couple of million illegal alien invaders have left. I think it is 2.2 million, if the numbers of Rosemary Jenks and the CIS people are essentially correct, have self deported, have left because of enforcement activity.
Now we have got to get into it. And I do not know, first of all, it is fraud of what they did. It is massive. It goes from Maine. It goes to Minnesota. Scott Bessent is on it, the IRS. This is what we have been advocating for a lot, that if you get into these nonprofits, if you actually get into also the business community around these people, you will find out they do not pay taxes, they cheat on their taxes, they lie on their taxes.
And this is, I am advocating for down in Texas. All this situation in the Muslim Brotherhood in Texas, you get the arrests on these folks. You can see a lot of these rats jump. You know, they are going to jump off the ship and get the hell out of here, because they are defrauding the American people every day.
The other question is the fight. And this is why we have got to bring it up in high relief about what the country is and what direction we are headed. Because they are not supposed to be on these welfare programs. One of the points of coming here is that you can support yourself.
And the Democrats, the radical Democrats have on and on, is to create all these USAID, and then all of these NGOs, particularly the phony Christian ones like the Lutherans and the Catholic charity, the worst, Catholic relief, Catholic refugees, the Catholic, that is all from the most progressive wing of the church, which realized they cannot keep the pews full of traditional Catholics because they have gone away from Catholic teachings. What they have got to do is import the third world. And it is a scam.
They are making money off it. They got a Jewish organization. Remember, Ben Bergquam did this, and Oscar Romero did this time and time and time again over those years that we proved. And the American people eventually accepted it, to say yes, you are absolutely correct about this organized invasion of the southern border.
Everything they do is highly organized. And it is to get people, first of all it is the old Cloward Piven strategy: bankrupt the system by paying for the third world to come here and have the third world not assimilate, and then have it destroy your health care system, destroy your education system. And it is destroyed for working class people, African Americans and Hispanic citizens and Asian Americans that have been in this country and are citizens of this country. They are the ones bearing the brunt of this.
And what is the force? That is not the illegal immigration. It is also the legal immigration scams. This is all the elites for their own benefit.
What are they doing? Number one, the HB1 scams and all the other visa scams are to compete with American labor and drive down cost, increase their margins, increase their stock price. The math is pretty simple. It is not complicated.
The reason they want millions of illegal aliens here is to help the consumer. Oh, they get higher GDP, and because everything they get, they spend right away on ultra processed food and rents and all that. And so we are going to have a GDP. They do not care about the social fabric of the country.
Remember, when they say it is the economy stupid, a country is more than just its economy. Yes, underpinning we are supposed to be based upon entrepreneurial free market capitalism. That is not what we have right now. We have a concentration and massive concentration of power and wealth. This is really state capitalism.
It was the Chinese Communist Party coming into WTO, most favorite nations, everything the Bush, Hunter, and Clintons offered them in the 90s to make sure that they were going to turn, you know, capitalism was going to turn them into liberal Democrats, Jeffersonian yeoman. That did not happen.
The state capitalist model of the CCP is very much what the broligarchs want. First of all, they do not want the nation state, but as an interim until they get to the network system, which is what they want, they will take state capitalism. And that is what they feel they have now.
This goes all the way through the AI fight, which we will talk about in a little while. But this system is totally rigged. And you see, this is why I say the Somalians in the situation there, and Scott Besson is on it. He is going to be like a dog with a bone.
But this is another one we have got to see. And of course the Justice Department is strapped. They do not have enough attorneys. Why? Because the Republican establishment has told them, if you work for President Trump, you cannot come to one of these big Republican law firms.
How many people from the big Republican law firms, the conservative law firms, are volunteering to come into the administration? How many Jones Day, which we had throughout the first administration? You have got a handful of guys, but they are not flooding the zone, these big conservative law firms. Why? They are anti Maga. And you are seeing this across the board.
And this is one of the reasons what we say at the show all the time about the broligarchs and the tech bros, which they want. It is a bunch of stuff in the NDAA that we are finding out about now that was buried, about giving them the opportunity to get loans to the strategic capital group that we will get into and get the details.
But they are going to be the first guys off the ship. Why? Because they are all progressive Democrats. And the ship is going to list a little bit. We are taking a couple of shots. That is okay.
Naval warfare. Took some, Nelson took some shots, gave it back, unsheathed the guns, and gave it back 10x. That is what is going to happen here.
We are going to win the midterms. It is going to be a grind. It is not going to be for the ribbon clerks or the summer soldiers or the sunshine patriots. All those guys that climbed on board after the victory in 24, all the ones who are all MAGA, you are not going to see them around, just like in the revolution.
You think we have not gone through this before? We have gone through this before. Look at Washington and the Continental Army and those militias that fought down to a handful of men, a couple thousand people. Everybody departed because it was too hard. It was too tough. I am jeopardizing my future.
That is exactly what is going to happen here. But here is where we are going to win. We are resilient. We are anti fragile. We do not give a tinker’s dam about the tech bros, the broligarchs. They are all paper. All of them got glass jaws.
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