Trump, GOP senators unveil measure to cut legal immigration

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Trump on Wednesday teamed up with two conservative Republican senators to roll out new legislation aimed at dramatically curbing legal immigration to the United States, a key Trump campaign promise.

Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) have been working with White House officials to revise and expand a bill released earlier this year that would halve the number of people who receive legal permanent residence over a decade.

The senators joined Trump at a White House ceremony to announce the measure.

The president told reporters in the Roosevelt Room that the measure “would represent the most significant reform to our immigration system in a half a century." 
 
They say the legislation would move the United States to a "merit-based" immigration system and away from the current model, which is largely based on family ties.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344924-trump-gop-senators-unveil-measure-to-cut-legal-immigration

[Xipe Totec]

1. "merit-based" immigration system

So, basically, only bring in workers that take high-paying professional jobs, and leave the low-skilled jobs for the natives.

Better start honing your produce picking skills.

[appleannie1943]

3. Nailed it.

And when we ordinary people can no longer afford to buy the overpriced food in the stores because more rots in the fields than gets picked, maybe we will beg for $2.00 an hour jobs.

[samnsara]

5. this is the VERY ARGUMENT i had with my trumper sis this am when...

she texted that the rising stock market is reflecting the jobs that are 'FINALLY being created'. Maybe her Pepe friends would like to go out and pick the rotting produce? Doubt if they would get their lily white hands all dirty.

[appleannie1943]

6. Apparently the millions put back to work in the last eight years and the rise in the stock market

during said years did not amount to anything. The only reason it is going up now is Trumpery promised the rich cats they would not have to pay higher taxes. That means we will have to to take up the slack and pay for a wall we don't need or want.

[Vinca]

2. How will Mar-a-Lago function?

[marylandblue]

4. Marco Rubio and Dean Heller won't vote for it

It would be political suicide for them. Just need one more GOP no and it's done.