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Trump, GOP senators unveil measure to cut legal immigration
TheHill ^ | 08/02/2017 | Jordan Fabian

Posted on 08/02/2017 9:05:53 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

President Trump on Wednesday teamed up with two conservative Republican senators to roll out new legislation aimed at dramatically curbing legal immigration to the United States, a key Trump campaign promise.

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Just Do It!
1 posted on 08/02/2017 9:05:53 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Repeal the Ted Kennedy legislation that changed America


2 posted on 08/02/2017 9:07:24 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

can they do that


3 posted on 08/02/2017 9:07:38 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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“can they do that”

Any law can be repealed.


4 posted on 08/02/2017 9:08:42 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

Any law can be repealed EXCEPT Obama care!!!


5 posted on 08/02/2017 9:10:09 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: ichabod1

If only we had a republican majority in Congress.


6 posted on 08/02/2017 9:11:11 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: SpeedyInTexas

It will never happen but it will help his reelection..and get more MAGA candidates elected in 2018...

The GOP is going to do NOTHING for the next two years..

Trump has to go crazy with executive orders on immigration

His cabinet people can do a lot for the economy

It is the ECONOMY..that is all that matters in 2018 and 2020


7 posted on 08/02/2017 9:12:48 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

“Any law can be repealed EXCEPT Obama care!!!”

That could be repealed too, if only our political class were not irredeemably corrupt and depraved.

We need to get a few million of our closest friends together and descend on their residences.


8 posted on 08/02/2017 9:13:22 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Nice try, and it’s a shame, but this legislation hasn’t a chance with our elected Internationalists in congress.


9 posted on 08/02/2017 9:14:08 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: SpeedyInTexas
On the one hand, I sympathize with people who try to get here the right way, hard as it can be. I work with multiple Russians and had a good friend in college who was (hang on now!) a Muslim from Africa. On the other hand, we already 310 million+ people in this country and millions of struggling Americans — we simply can't accommodate more people, especially considering that many immigrants tend to lean left.
10 posted on 08/02/2017 9:15:13 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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“new legislation aimed at dramatically curbing legal immigration to the United States”

Yes, the answer to my prayers.

I think this could get through the House. It would be worthwhile to give up some things on other subject matters (taxes, whatever) that would otherwise cause heartburn in order to get it though the Senate. It’s that important.


11 posted on 08/02/2017 9:17:58 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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We are currently taking 1 million per year. With a population of 324 million and 94 million out of work we don’t need one more immigrant.


12 posted on 08/02/2017 9:20:47 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

You watch. This is going to turn into another back door measure to increase H-1b visa quotas. Thus the continued pitting of the USA’s homegrown best and brightest against a flood of 3rd worlders to lower salaries across the board. Globalism sucks.


13 posted on 08/02/2017 9:21:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Immigration in no way helps the average worker in the USA. More workers equals lower salaries and more tax burden. It is just the law of supply and demand.


14 posted on 08/02/2017 9:22:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

This will get virtually no Demonrat support. To them immigration reform is to legalize all illegals here and liberalize entry of new immigrants, both in numbers and qualifications. Oh, I almost forgot, don’t build a border wall.


15 posted on 08/02/2017 9:23:21 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
we don’t need one more immigrant.

Worth repeating.

16 posted on 08/02/2017 9:23:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Exactly. And we’re already well beyond max capacity.


17 posted on 08/02/2017 9:25:27 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Our problem is less that we can’t accommodate them, and more that we refuse to assimilate them.

Massive numbers came here in the early 20th. Century, but they became Americans in less than a generation.


18 posted on 08/02/2017 9:27:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

WHY DO WE NEED ONE MORE IMMIGRANT coming to a nation that is trying to offshore every job possible, from factory to IT department.


19 posted on 08/02/2017 9:29:50 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Article says we are issuing 1 million Green Cards per year.
Many times more than that are actually coming into the country on various visas.

1 million per year is too much. Green Card is permanent residency. We can’t possibly vet a million people each year for how well they’ve assimilated and whether they adhere to our values.


20 posted on 08/02/2017 9:34:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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