White House floats an offer to keep legal immigration at 1 million per year instead of cutting it

[mystery-ak]

White House floats an offer to keep legal immigration at 1 million per year instead of cutting it
By BRIAN BENNETT Tribune Washington Bureau

       

February 10, 2018 12:00 AM

Updated 1 hour 59 minutes ago
WASHINGTON

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.

President Donald Trump has proposed a series of measures, including restrictions on family unification, which he calls "chain migration," and an end to the visa lottery, that critics say ultimately could cut legal immigration to America by 40 percent or more.

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.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article199533469.html#storylink=cpy

[truth_seeker]

My biggest concern with any immigration restrictions: They programs will be administered by government employees, and every corner will be cut, to negate the ideas involved with rules.

Why do I say that? Because the current situation whereby employers "verify" the status of applicants, is a joke. The system merely takes two documents, and the employer is not qualified or equipped to determine forgeries, fraud or real identification papers.

[Sanguine]

 

[GtHawk]

Well that's an awful lot like something else that floats that no one in their right mind wants.