Milo Yiannopoulos Quotes
America's got to take a break from foreign wars, and take a break from immigration.
Yiannopoulos, Milo. Interview by Dave Rubin. The Rubin Report, 2016.
Most Americans do not realize that for most of Amrcan history there has been open borders with little or no restrcition on immigration. These that there were tend to be rembered becuse of the populism, nativism and unrest taht went with them.
This seems to be origin of the slogan that was used by the extreme right wing opponents of fighting Hitler in WWII and an isolationist minor political party that formed in 1944.
He was referring to the proposal to erect a fence between Mexico and the United States to stop illegal immigration.
The United States policies at the time encouraged tens of thousands of foreigners to study in America—especially mathematics, science and engineering. Then after they graduate we expel them despite the fact that we have a great labor shortage of these technical skill areas. The result is that the American economy lags in one of its most important areas, high technology for lack of qualified people to fill the jobs. Larger American companies then set up operations overseas and hire many of the people who we kicked out, so they do not pay any taxes to America. The best and most ambitious of these American trained foreigners, then start their own businesses abroad, create many jobs that never benefit Americans and then sell to America competing with American firms. New York City alone had tens of thousands of open jobs at very high salaries for which there were no Americans to fill while the New York schools had trained enough foreigners to fill the jobs, but our national policies forced the best and the brightest to leave and compete with us.
This historical quotation shows us that the nation under Republican control at the end of the 19th century was highly protectionist. In addition. It shows us how a party can flip flop on its most cherished principles. A century later, free trade was the cornerstone of Republican philosophy and opponents who held to the Republican 19th century principles were accused of being detriments to the American growth and economic system.
At the time many Protestant evangelicals viewed Catholics as subversive to the American way of life because of their allegiance to the Pope and parts of Catholic Theology. The Christian Evangelicals in America have been split on their views of immigration. See {632914} for an example of a contrary position.
American official foreign policy had been officially isolationist—to not get involved in the squabbles and fights of other nations. Angell however pointed out that even before WWII, America had formally been involved in 6 foreign wars and used military incursions on foreign soil on almost 100 occasions.
Milo Yiannopoulos, or pen name Milo Andreas Wagner, is a British far-right political commentator, polemicist, public speaker and writer. His speeches and writings often ridicule Islam, feminism, social justice, and political correctness. Yiannopoulos is a former editor for Breitbart News, a far-right media organisation.
