I don't think anyone, red or blue or purple, really wants to stop skilled immigrants from coming to America. The debate is around those who are less skilled.
Lots of people, some of them quite publicly—including Steve Bannon, Trump's Chief Strategist in that latter group—do. Some because they are competition for jobs, some because of general xenophobia, some for other reasons.
Bannon has specifically criticized legal immigration generally, and the "progressive plutocrats of Silicon Valley" and the H1B program and the preponderance of Asians (calling out both South and East) in tech specifically. If you think he's only interested in curbing "less skilled" immigration, you're mistaken.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bannon-explained-his...
> While Bannon didn’t explicitly say anything against immigrants,
then adds the partisan spin:
> he seemed to hint ...
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.
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".
link : 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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannon-flattered...
I'd like to hear the quote in context and not speculate or repeat partisan spin based on one sentence he once said.
"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
"... 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-Childre...