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White House floats an offer to keep legal immigration at 1 million per year
Sacramento Bee ^ | February 10, 2018 | BRIAN BENNETT

Posted on 02/11/2018 10:01:41 AM PST by artichokegrower

As the Senate prepares to begin a free-wheeling debate over immigration next week, White House officials have begun floating a possible compromise idea – a pledge to maintain legal immigration at current levels, about 1.1 million people a year, for more than a decade.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigration; legalimmigration; trumpimmigration
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But a White House official said Saturday that the Trump administration is working with allies in the Senate on a proposal that would create a path to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million people who were brought to the country illegally as children, and that would clear the backlog of nearly 4 million sponsored relatives who currently are waiting for green cards.


So we have gone from 800,000 DACA recipient to 1.6 million plus 4 million sponsored relatives plus 1.2 million immigrants a year for ten years. Why do I bother to vote?

1 posted on 02/11/2018 10:01:41 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Why do we need to allow one million more people in? At what point are we full?


2 posted on 02/11/2018 10:06:43 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: artichokegrower

Any DACA recipient should count against the 1 million.


3 posted on 02/11/2018 10:06:55 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: artichokegrower

Democrats will NEVER accept a wall or any type of real border security no matter what type of amnesty is proposed. I have faith in Trump. He won’t sell out. He just wants to get Dems on record saying NO even with generous amnesty.


4 posted on 02/11/2018 10:07:18 AM PST by dixie1202
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To: artichokegrower

the actual numbers for last few years are roughly:

400,000 legal immigrants per year
600,000 illegals who become legal per year

Mexican net immigration ( legal and illegal ) is slightly negative and has been for about 5 years.


5 posted on 02/11/2018 10:09:07 AM PST by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: ilovesarah2012

It’s the sacbee

Read it

Headline is always propaganda


6 posted on 02/11/2018 10:10:17 AM PST by stanne
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To: artichokegrower

Trump needs to announce that he is going to bring in a few million at-risk African refugees to the US.

The libs will love the idea.

The commotion will be epic when he explains that he means, white south Africans....who really are in danger.


7 posted on 02/11/2018 10:11:47 AM PST by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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To: artichokegrower

Depends on where the million come from, doesn’t it? And maybe with a merit-based immigration program the nation would benefit.


8 posted on 02/11/2018 10:11:50 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: artichokegrower

No

A complete moratorium on all immigration.

For 20 years.


9 posted on 02/11/2018 10:12:30 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: artichokegrower

If he gives away the country, he won’t get re-elected, not that it would matter.

Legal immigration is as much a problem as illegal immigration, we are still losing our country.


10 posted on 02/11/2018 10:12:56 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: artichokegrower

Everything I hear is just backsliding. NO IMMIGRATION is the point to start at, not 1Million.


11 posted on 02/11/2018 10:14:13 AM PST by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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To: artichokegrower

Nullify the 1965 Immigration act
Ban birthright citizenship
No more immigrants, legal or illegal from shitholes
No benefits and no EITC payments to non-citizens
And.....absolutely no amnesty


12 posted on 02/11/2018 10:14:18 AM PST by umgud
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To: Lurkinanloomin

If it’s merit based and the end chain migration that would end a win for us. I think that would mean a net loss for the Rats.


13 posted on 02/11/2018 10:16:23 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: vooch

Link? “600,000 illegals who become legal per year”

They wouldn’t be squealing for amnesty if we gave that many amnesty already.

The numbers I trust say 1 million a year legally, 1 million a year illegally entering the country.

Illegal aliens can’t become legal, that’s why they want amnesty so bad.


14 posted on 02/11/2018 10:16:42 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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We need to remove the illegal aliens, ALL of them and restore the rule of law.
We need to reduce legal immigration by 3/4.
Some places in America aren’t America anymore.
We are being colonized by the world.


15 posted on 02/11/2018 10:20:56 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

We must establish legal immigration for STEMs* only. No matter where they are from. Guaranteed contributors.

*STEM-Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. Like the Koreans, Chinese, Taiwanese. Unlike American youth, constantly playing video games or engaged in meaningless conversation on their devices, the oriental youth are doing advanced calculus.


16 posted on 02/11/2018 10:22:14 AM PST by huckfillary
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To: Lurkinanloomin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States

just the facts


17 posted on 02/11/2018 10:25:12 AM PST by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: artichokegrower

I understand the possible need for bipartisanship because lame arse McConnell will not use the 51 vote option, but come on, stop bending and twisting your promise to seriously curtail this long-standing illegal immigration issue, Trump.


18 posted on 02/11/2018 10:26:08 AM PST by cranked
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To: vooch

Wikipedia?


19 posted on 02/11/2018 10:26:13 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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