Trump, GOP senators to introduce bill to slash legal immigration levels
Source: MSN/Washington Post
President Trump will appear with a pair of conservative Republican senators at the White House on Wednesday to unveil legislation aimed at slashing legal immigration levels over a decade, a goal Trump endorsed on the campaign trail.
Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.) and David Perdue (Ga.) have been working with the Trump administration to refine a bill they first introduced in February that aims to cut immigration by half from the current level of more than 1 million green cards per year granting foreigners permanent legal residence in the United States. The revised legislation also is expected to put stricter limits on temporary work visas for lower skilled immigrants.
The outlines of the legislation reflect the aims Trump touted on the campaign trail, when he argued that the rapid growth of immigration over the past half century had harmed job opportunities for American workers and led to risks to national security. Trump has met twice at the White House with Cotton and Perdue to discuss the details of their legislation, which is titled the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act.
In a speech last week in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump praised the senators' efforts, calling their legislation a pathway to creating a merit-based immigration system.
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awesomerwb1
(4,269 posts)when nothing else is working, go after the people of color/immigrants.
Cotton and Perdue.....
IronLionZion
(45,601 posts)I bet millions of Europeans coming here were perfectly fine throughout history but we better shut the doors to non-whites.
Maybe next they will come up with a brilliant solution for people who were born here but look like immigrants. I'm sure they'd like to repeal my US citizenship.
They'll come for white liberals eventually.
keithbvadu2
(36,993 posts)IronLionZion
(45,601 posts)Trump and his people want to avoid having new American citizens and permanent residents who have too much melanin in their skin. It's a deliberate effort to stop diversity.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)filled by all of those people who claimed Hispanics were taking their jobs? Are they working yet now that those jobs are available?