Trump Advocates for Merit-Based Immigration
Published:
Wed, Jan 18th 2017 @ 11:25 am EST
President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News that his administration will work towards a legal immigration system where new immigrants are chosen based on their skills rather than the current system that heavily favors extended family members. Trump said his administration would release the details of a plan that could possibly include protections for the roughly 1 million illegal aliens who benefited from Pres. Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Under existing law, nearly two-thirds of all new green cards issued each year are selected by the new immigrants themselves through family Chain Migration categories regardless of the individuals skills or education. Ending Chain Migration was a recommendation of the last bipartisan commission on immigration reform chaired by the late Civil Rights icon Barbara Jordan.
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