I have a challenge for you: check every fact that comes out of the Trump administration. Bannon's reference to this is confused. He first talks about guest workers, suggesting its 61 million, and then confuses that with total immigrants.
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....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?...."
Well, I took exception to YOUR post because you said:
That stuck me as patently absurd. It was a fact that on surface was nonsensical. You should have seen it as non-sense as well. The CIS report on H1-B workers is actually 65,000. The article I posted suggest the number is actually closer to 650,000. Either way, your post was off by 100-1000 fold. You should have known better.
Estimating the Size of the H-1B Population in the U.S. | Center for Immigration Studies
There are 42 million "immigrants" in this country, most of whom have been invited. Though if we wish to discuss the multi-generational impact of immigration, then there are 300 million "immigrants" in this country. That is NOT guest workers, that is people living and working in the US. If you want to blast the idea of immigration to the US, then you want to blast a essential element in the American fabric, but its a separate discussion.
Immigrants in the United States | Center for Immigration Studies