Hurray!
….. and the Wall?
The Wall will be built , - we all hope!
Because constructure of infrastruction is vital to the national interest.
Why should we be asylum central ?
Birthright citizenship ? Yep, stop that crap yesterday.
It's a start
“keeping the number of green cards issued per year at one million”
Sure. As long as they come from countries specified in the 1924 National Origins act.
For 55 years now the entire flow has been from any countries EXCEPT those.
People who have nothing to do with the original Americans and even consider us their enemies now live here in massive numbers and agitate to break up our nation constantly.
Did anyone ever envision 60 million Asians, South and Central Americans and even Africans coming to the United States 2 centuries after they were established, and had become the dominant world power?!
We never “needed” a single one of them. The benefit was entirely to the immigrant aliens themselves: they got to cash in on the biggest lottery in human history, with absolutely no justification on their side except...they had nothing to do with us, or worse, had a grudge against us (think “Mexico”).
And before someone says “you’re being too critical! Don’s doing what he’s got to!” all I can say is answer the question: did we “need” 60 million utter aliens?
No. We didn’t. When they started coming, that was when the Left was telling us we were “overpopulated” and we needed to limit ourselves to “replacement” families of two children each. In a country where families of 8-10 were not uncommon, Protestant OR Catholic.
What we are confronting now is a social experiment of vast and terrifying proportions, one where an incredibly successful nation decided to swallow a pill that possibly would kill it...no one knows. The experiment isn’t over yet. But the symptoms so far aren’t promising.
We all know that this is a bridge measure: he’s going along with 1 million since that’s a number the corporations want to keep wage demands in line. And the skills focus is to re-orient the whole thing away from millions of half wits from third world s**tholes into something vaguely sensible.
But it was all NEVER necessary. It was and is a replacement program dreamed up by people with agendas against America.
No point in continuing to appease their agenda by just skewing it a bit. How bout just stopping it cold in its tracks?
I heard Pelosi and Durbin calling President Trump's proposed merit system condescending....what an awful attitude.
Hey Pelosi, what are you doing about your filthy city on the Bay? Is Pelosi in the drug business, is that why she doesn't want a wall...to slow the drugs entering this country down?
1 million new people per year! I might be up for that if it hadn’t been for such a flood in recent decades of legal and illegal aliens coming with no plan to deal with those here illegally.
We have enough traffic already.
“The merit based system uses points to assess citizenship eligibility by evaluating English proficiency,”
WE NEED TO ADD to this bill a section that requires the toughest testing of English proficiency before citizenship, and we need to BAN FOREIGN LANGUAGES on our ballots.
The main problem with the current system, and with the Bush and McCain comprehensive reforms is that they did not benefit the immigrants. They are not written to benefit the taxpayers and citizens.
They are written to benefit the lawyers. They made the system as complex and in need of a lawyer as possible.
Is Trump’s system designed benefit the lawyers? Or the rest of us? I haven’t read it yet.
This is his 2020 campaign kickoff.
Note to China: Having your nuts in a vise for five years four months and then having to deal with a President Pence is gonna hurt. Don’t listen to these people. They’re not serious. One thing I know from doing business with Chinese. They are practical.
Points system. Sounds like the Australian system. I hope some improvement in the current US immigration system happens since it looks somewhat broken, at least to someone looking at it from the other side of the world...
This "comprehensive" approach is BS. I smell Kushner....
Kushner, you're fired.