This is in addition to his comments that he wanted to grant amnesty to DACA recipients. Of course the issue got tossed to the courts and they made the final decision leaving neither Trump or either party responsible. This bombshell is in addition to DACA. He wants to pave the way for immigrants to increase our labor force. Where have we seen this scenario? Why, Germany of course! The crime in Germany has soared since they've allowed mass migration into their country ... Merkle needed to increase the labor force too!
Trump drops a bombshell on immigration, and no one bothers to report it It came at a roundtable on tax reform held in Cleveland. Here’s what the president said, after making a no-longer-true comment that the stock market being up 35% since his election in 2016. (The S&P 500 SPX, +0.35% is up about 25% since the election, with this year’s turmoil accounted for.)
“And we do need people coming into our country,†Trump said. “You know, at 3.9% unemployment, we need people coming in. But I will tell you this, we want people to come into our country on the basis of merit.â€
Reporters’ jaws didn’t exactly drop at the remark. You won’t find it in the accounts of the speech by the Associated Press, CBS News or the New York Times.
That could be because Trump has long supported a merit-based immigration system, and derided the U.S. lottery system. That’s not new.
And technically, even the harsh legal-immigration bill he supported, called the Raise Act, would allow for more legal immigrants to come into the country. But it would cut their numbers in half.
Still, the emphasis — from Trump — that the U.S. will need to expand its workforce by importing labor, is new. .........
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-drops-a-bombshell-on-immigration-and-no-one-bothers-to-report-it-2018-05-07