FAIR Applauds Reintroduction of the RAISE Act

[libertybele]

I haven't researched this to see the progress of this bill. (If this is a duplicate; apologizing ahead of time).

FAIR Applauds Reintroduction of the RAISE Act

The following statement was issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), regarding the reintroduction of the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act:

“The RAISE Act ends chain-migration by limiting family-based immigration to the nuclear family and replacing the employment-based system with a modernized, skills-based point structure. It helps select immigrants who have the tools to succeed in the U.S. while returning immigration to more traditional levels.

“Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), along with Representative Francis Rooney (R-Fla.), should be applauded for recognizing the current dysfunction of our outdated immigration policies that, unlike the rest of the nation, have been stuck in a time warp for the last 50 years. The RAISE Act closely follows the bipartisan recommendations of President Clinton’s Jordan Commission, which called for moving the nation to an immigration model that emphasizes skills over bloodlines and returns immigration to more traditional levels.

“Nothing underscores the failure of our current immigration system like the constant clamor of the business lobby for more ‘skilled’ workers, while we import over one million immigrants each and every year, with nearly one-quarter lacking even a high school diploma. The unremitting increase in unskilled immigrants has resulted in depressed wages and working conditions for Americans already struggling to make it in our rapidly changing economy.

http://fairus.org/press-releases/fair-applauds-reintroduction-raise-act

[austingirl]

You never hear the democommies saying we should adopt the immigration policies of Australia and New Zealand (merit-based) just their confiscation of guns policies.