Trump bats for merit-based immigration, says he wants people to come into US, but legally
His statement raised hopes of hundreds of thousands of Indian IT professionals who are the worst sufferers of the current per country quota system.
By PTI | Feb 06, 2019, 05.13 PM IST
President Trump said: "We have a moral duty to create an immigration system that protects the lives and jobs of our citizens".
Washington: US President Donald Trump Wednesday made yet another strong pitch for merit-based immigration in his annual State of the Union address, saying legal immigrants enrich the US in countless ways, raising hopes of hundreds of thousands of Indian IT professionals who are the worst sufferers of the current per country quota system.
Indian-Americans, most of whom are highly skilled and came to the US mainly on H-1B work visas, are the worst sufferers of the current immigration system which imposes a seven per cent per country quota on allotment of green cards or permanent legal residency.
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