https://minutesof.com/on/immigration/ Everyone on the record about immigration: 32 verbatim quotes from 7 people, June 2024 to August 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:01 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/76678b47-6bf5-4cc3-b031-a4a0c7b2d3b7/ https://minutesof.com/q/76678b47-6bf5-4cc3-b031-a4a0c7b2d3b7/ “But based on what the data tell us today, I expect the combined effects of trade and immigration policies and associated uncertainty to continue to weigh on growth.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches immigration https://minutesof.com/q/111c9642-75a4-438c-9929-6dfef61b358e/ https://minutesof.com/q/111c9642-75a4-438c-9929-6dfef61b358e/ “Under PRWORA, only U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and qualified aliens are eligible to receive federal public benefits.” — Scott Bessent, Treasury press and remarks immigration https://minutesof.com/q/e79205df-c8e4-47d2-9445-100011d9ab6b/ https://minutesof.com/q/e79205df-c8e4-47d2-9445-100011d9ab6b/ “This action cracks down on the abuse of taxpayer-funded refundable individual income tax credits and ensures that illegal aliens and other non-qualified aliens barred by federal law do not receive public benefits, which they are ineligible to receive.” — Scott Bessent, Treasury press and remarks immigration https://minutesof.com/q/bab36f9a-04b7-4828-8bdd-7f45ae612619/ https://minutesof.com/q/bab36f9a-04b7-4828-8bdd-7f45ae612619/ “These proposed regulations end the abuse, protect the integrity of the tax system, and put Americans first.”” — Scott Bessent, Treasury press and remarks immigration https://minutesof.com/q/d82a520a-447d-4660-ae2c-69bd876d954a/ https://minutesof.com/q/d82a520a-447d-4660-ae2c-69bd876d954a/ ““American taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for benefits going to those who are barred by law from receiving them.” — Scott Bessent, Treasury press and remarks immigration https://minutesof.com/q/4d25fbbe-acf8-4d68-bf43-418dbe69c2c2/ https://minutesof.com/q/4d25fbbe-acf8-4d68-bf43-418dbe69c2c2/ “And did you know this is the craziest statistic of the entire last administration, that all of the net job creation under Joe Biden's leadership went to foreign born Americans, mostly illegal aliens.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:15:06 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/dd37a86a-06aa-471b-9b97-93451ffa0e2f/ https://minutesof.com/q/dd37a86a-06aa-471b-9b97-93451ffa0e2f/ “We can absolutely investigate every shooting and we will, but we can also secure our border and ensure that that poison stops coming into our country.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:15:12 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/21c5f586-28fb-4e4f-914b-7e26f0012904/ https://minutesof.com/q/21c5f586-28fb-4e4f-914b-7e26f0012904/ “my message to the Democrats who are so worried about that situation is to say, have a little bit of perspective.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:15:12 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/3ef386b3-7cc0-49be-94e9-bc4c7546977a/ https://minutesof.com/q/3ef386b3-7cc0-49be-94e9-bc4c7546977a/ “what I see from Democrats is people who are far more worried about a shooting involving an illegal alien than they are about the fact that tens of thousands of Mainers died from fentanyl overdoses by that poison brought into our community.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:15:12 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/26bff7b5-b39f-4ba9-90aa-a79d4f8705dc/ https://minutesof.com/q/26bff7b5-b39f-4ba9-90aa-a79d4f8705dc/ “And when you give them houses that all go by right to American citizens, that's gonna increase the cost of housing for everybody else.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:00:19 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/b460b08b-7845-4849-84f9-e459225dbfe5/ https://minutesof.com/q/b460b08b-7845-4849-84f9-e459225dbfe5/ “we've deported thousands of violent predators, criminals, fraudsters, and other people who are making it harder for law abiding citizens to live their lives.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:00:19 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/eaa3a178-0844-4f39-bf25-de94b833a40f/ https://minutesof.com/q/eaa3a178-0844-4f39-bf25-de94b833a40f/ “They would cheer on the corporate raiders as they slashed headcount and shifted all those businesses either to foreign countries or brought in illegal aliens to employ.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:45:22 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/11266b47-b30f-42e7-8c1a-ced52efbeb6f/ https://minutesof.com/q/11266b47-b30f-42e7-8c1a-ced52efbeb6f/ “What we really needed, they told us, was just to juice the short term profits of a few big corporations. We needed to open that border and prioritize foreign workers over our own citizens.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:45:22 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/f6bbb84f-4e73-4e5e-af2b-6eb10015d233/ https://minutesof.com/q/f6bbb84f-4e73-4e5e-af2b-6eb10015d233/ “And the anchor comes back and says to me, she says, well, they've only taken over one or two apartment complexes.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:30:09 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/a7526d8b-f145-4bb1-a5bb-99fe312b2c5e/ https://minutesof.com/q/a7526d8b-f145-4bb1-a5bb-99fe312b2c5e/ “And the business, the bank, they told him, you're only gonna get your severance package if you trained a foreign replacement to do your job instead.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:30:28 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/61a8c2e2-a268-4a69-a2dc-24b37d5687f5/ https://minutesof.com/q/61a8c2e2-a268-4a69-a2dc-24b37d5687f5/ “In other cases, American workers didn't just have their jobs destroyed, they got told they were being replaced by a foreign worker, and then they had to train that worker before they got replaced.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:30:28 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/7c9f8018-658a-4620-9cce-f4fb4c78b6fa/ https://minutesof.com/q/7c9f8018-658a-4620-9cce-f4fb4c78b6fa/ “Being replaced by foreign workers, in other words, it was not an accident, my friends. It was the desired outcome of a generation of American elites.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:30:28 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/fe395599-6c4d-4325-b819-30da5ef77e01/ https://minutesof.com/q/fe395599-6c4d-4325-b819-30da5ef77e01/ “He said someone who believes, this is a quote, in the free trade and free movements of capital, they declared, will quite naturally believe in the free movement of labor.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:30:28 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/9a10c095-5f00-4477-bfee-765ba21eafc8/ https://minutesof.com/q/9a10c095-5f00-4477-bfee-765ba21eafc8/ “Do you know that all net job growth over the past eighteen months went to native born Americans, reversing a trend for four years where it all went to other people?” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:00:25 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/58e7e704-d2a2-4097-ba65-f8f13d8ace4e/ https://minutesof.com/q/58e7e704-d2a2-4097-ba65-f8f13d8ace4e/ “And what we did is we told American corporations that if you wanted new workers, you gotta start by training and hiring your own countrymen.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:00:25 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/41dde45a-6bcc-4a83-af14-09bf90c256d7/ https://minutesof.com/q/41dde45a-6bcc-4a83-af14-09bf90c256d7/ “But as we've learned over the past eighteen months, it didn't require a new law to close down that border. It just required a new US president.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:00:25 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/f393b2db-e64a-43d5-9451-a8c06f7a0d5b/ https://minutesof.com/q/f393b2db-e64a-43d5-9451-a8c06f7a0d5b/ “One incoming democrat congresswoman wants to abolish prisons, she wants to abolish police, and she wants to abolish the borders.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:30:21 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/bc042124-e4e5-449b-bb11-2c15c9efd629/ https://minutesof.com/q/bc042124-e4e5-449b-bb11-2c15c9efd629/ “Whether it's child predators, Somali fraudsters, foreign gang members, or even visa fraudsters who are working to undercut American wages and steal from American taxpayers, the Democrats know who they stand for.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:36:42 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/fa2ce3e9-18f6-45fd-9554-ce1cb2a358c5/ https://minutesof.com/q/fa2ce3e9-18f6-45fd-9554-ce1cb2a358c5/ “Do remember Tim Waltz? Caught wind. And you know what he did? He pardoned the guy. He pardoned a literal child rapist to prevent him from being deported out of The United States Of America.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:36:42 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/5e2d07c0-7fef-407b-ab7d-b61d9ace2621/ https://minutesof.com/q/5e2d07c0-7fef-407b-ab7d-b61d9ace2621/ “I saw a study that suggested that 40 to 50% of the AI researchers in The United States, our best researchers are Chinese.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:20:47 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/551539a9-4696-47ff-b640-c9235c059c6f/ https://minutesof.com/q/551539a9-4696-47ff-b640-c9235c059c6f/ “some people say 50% of AI researchers are of Chinese origin. And I believe now the patent count in AI coming out of China is larger than The US.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:20:47 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/5e13a90d-8145-4262-bc09-04844f0fb054/ https://minutesof.com/q/5e13a90d-8145-4262-bc09-04844f0fb054/ “To the extent we do not want massive amounts of immigration, we are not going to be the low cost manufacturing center for low value goods.” — Marc Rowan, CNBC Television Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:27:57 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/bc462a3b-9b75-47ba-aef3-bfa1b9ff3fbf/ https://minutesof.com/q/bc462a3b-9b75-47ba-aef3-bfa1b9ff3fbf/ “About two weeks from today, it goes out. Okay. Elon's building me the software right now. Yeah. Right. And then out it goes.” — Howard Lutnick, All-In Podcast Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:46:53 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/b57bdb41-3b8b-4b67-a5f3-75d99f26eae5/ https://minutesof.com/q/b57bdb41-3b8b-4b67-a5f3-75d99f26eae5/ “Do realize if we sold those 400,000 a year for 5,000,000 each? You know, that's $2,000,000,000,000 every time. 2,000,000,000,000. We'd have no budget deficit. We could lower taxes on America.” — Howard Lutnick, CBS Evening News Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:26:30 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/3295cb35-7c3b-431a-9569-32e383ab284d/ https://minutesof.com/q/3295cb35-7c3b-431a-9569-32e383ab284d/ “You're a driver, you lose your job to autonomous driving. You know, go through the list, and we're gonna see a lot of this. Right?” — Brad Gerstner, Summit Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:01:32 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/5328b159-6807-43ad-af58-33fcb6eb4356/ https://minutesof.com/q/5328b159-6807-43ad-af58-33fcb6eb4356/ “And he proposed something apparently at the roundtable. He said, anybody who comes here for a four year education completes their degree in The United States, we're gonna give them a green card.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Sat, 22 Jun 2024 17:50:33 +0000 immigration https://minutesof.com/q/c5e6e907-04b4-48a3-81b1-1c39dd5deb19/ https://minutesof.com/q/c5e6e907-04b4-48a3-81b1-1c39dd5deb19/ “They said it was the first time they ever heard him say, and I gotta solve the problem for everybody in this room, how I get you more talented workers.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Sat, 22 Jun 2024 17:50:33 +0000 immigration