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Trump has railed in a couple of events against "chain development" and lotteries for green cards. His association is moving to change a program for the life accomplices of high-skilled visa holders. Likewise, the White House and Congress remain far isolated on the most ideal approach to address DACA.

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Trump has never shied from his attacks on illegal immigration, which, alongside a US-Mexico border wall, was a core component of his campaign.

But doubts existed about his commitment level, as some of the more aggressive proposals considered by the administration languished in bureaucratic morass and as he said strongly favorable things about recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in September as he opted to end it.

Of late, however, Trump and the administration have upped their rhetoric on immigration.

Trump has railed in several instances against "chain migration" and lotteries for green cards. His administration is moving to alter a program for the spouses of high-skilled visa holders. And the White House and Congress remain far apart on how to address DACA.

In mid-September, Trump wrote, "Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military?"

But since then, he has insisted on controversial immigration reduction proposals that would have a hard time passing even among some Republicans, including drastically cutting the overall number of green cards given out annually and transforming the way they are given out, placing a heavy emphasis on only highly skilled, English-speaking immigrants and not low-skilled individuals.

Groups that have long advocated for reducing overall immigration are energized.

"We're excited about how the administration has held firmly to these issues," said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "We've put almost $1 million into ads. ... This is the moment we've been waiting for four decades."

Stein was especially pleased with Trump's recent insistence that any deal to save DACA, which protected young undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children, include cuts to family-based immigration, or "chain migration," and the diversity visa program, which allows up to 50,000 individuals from countries with low levels of immigration to the US to come on visas distributed by lottery.

Chain migration focus

The administration also was quick to point out that two recent terrorist attacks in New York City were committed by individuals with connections to family-based migration and the diversity lottery.

"You think the countries' giving us their best people?" Trump said Friday in a speech to law enforcement personnel. "No. What kind of system is that? They come in by lottery. They give us their worst people, put them in a bin, but in his hand when he is picking them is really the worst of the worst."

The theme of the dangers of immigrants -- despite no research showing them to be more prone to crime than the native-born population -- has been particularly hammered by longtime immigration hardliner Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

"If we accept lawlessness, then we encourage lawlessness. When people break our laws without consequences, we shouldn't be surprised when they continue breaking our laws," Sessions said in a speech last week. "We should give priority to those who are likely to thrive here -- such as those who speak English or are highly skilled -- not someone chosen at random or who happens to be somebody's relative."

In reality, individuals in those countries are selected randomly but still must meet the security and eligibility requirements placed on all immigrants to actually get their visas. Diversity recipients specifically must also have at least a high school education or equivalent and job experience. The process includes an in-person interview, and anyone that is found to be a security threat would be inadmissible to the US.

While the diversity lottery only affects about 50,000 of roughly 1 million green cards given out to the US annually, Trump has supported legislation from two GOP senators that would drastically reduce family visa categories, cutting yearly numbers in half.

The administration has also made its own efforts to reduce immigration levels without Congress, including setting a historically low number of refugee admissions for next year, instituting the travel ban and submitting would-be visitors and immigrants to "extreme vetting."

Late last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed it intends to do away with work permits for spouses of high-skilled visa holders who are waiting in a years-long green card backlog. The announcement also said the agency intends to set a higher bar for the high-skilled visa itself.

New Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spent last week establishing her hardline immigration bona fides, touting security at the border and attacking sanctuary cities and immigrant-related crime. Her tour came after weeks of broadsides from Trump-aligned sources like Breitbart, which had pejoratively nicknamed her "Lady DACA."

Leon Fresco, an immigration attorney and Obama administration alum, said that while there may be some fraud in the immigration system, the Trump agenda goes beyond reasonably trying to resolve it.

"They're not just fixing the system, they are signaling a belief that regardless of their skills and talent, people from foreign countries are not welcome," Fresco said. "Many of these reforms that are being implemented are simply out of the wishlist of the anti-immigrant groups and are not serving a legitimate purpose of reforming the immigration system. ... The goal is to reduce the total number of foreigners."

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Trump embraces far right immigration playbook

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Trump has never shied from his attacks on illegal immigration, which, alongside a US-Mexico border wall, was a core component of his campaign. But doubts existed about his commitment level, as some of the more aggressive proposals considered by the administration languished in bureaucratic morass and as he said strongly favorable things about recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in September as he opted to end it.

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America is handling immigration all wrong. As the son of an immigrant father, I firmly believe immigration represents a pillar of America's long-term success and has kept our nation growing and dynamic for centuries. But our present misbegotten policies must be reformed to select immigrants based on merit, rather than family ties.

Reform is needed because our current policies undermine our national and economic security. In addition, without reform Americans will surely turn against immigration in principle.

Today the majority of immigrant-headed households receive some form of government welfare assistance. This represents a totally untenable abuse of taxpayers and utterly upends the immigration realities faced by most of our ancestors who arrived in America expecting nothing more than an opportunity.

Even worse, recent terrorist attacks - especially the Halloween truck attack and Dec. 11 Port Authority bombing in New York City - highlight the perils of allowing highly risky people into our nation via lottery and chain migration models.

What is chain migration? Essentially, it is the fastest and easiest way to gain legal entry into America, via sponsorship by a family member who's already a legal resident or citizen of the United States. In fact, 70 percent of all immigrant arrivals in recent decades are chain migrants.

Certainly, family ties in the Unites States comprise one sensible input into filtering who should receive immigration status. But extended bloodlines should hardly represent the dominant factor. The most important factor should and must be merit.

Senators Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and David Perdue, R-Ga., are sponsoring the RAISE Act. This bill would create a point system to evaluate potential immigrants based on such factors as age, education, professional skills and English proficiency. We also must, as best we can, determine if potential migrants love our country, respect our Constitution and embrace our values.

Instead, we've instituted an insane visa lottery program to supposedly diversify our immigrant pool, where new immigrants are literally selected at random. Among the "lucky" winners was Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov from Uzbekistan, an ISIS sympathizer who killed eight people in New York City with his truck.

Because the lottery winners then sponsor relatives via chain migration, our nation has now welcomed 5 million random people here with a path to citizenship. Among those 5 million is Akayed Ullah, the wannabe Port Authority suicide bomber who, thankfully, was better at hating America than he was at making bombs.

Ullah was allowed into America because his aunt won the immigration lottery. We cannot have more "nephew lottery picks" who attack our innocents because they resent Christmas displays.

The Trump administration deserves huge credit for largely securing our border after only months in office. Illegal crossings have plunged as the result of better enforcement and clear-eyed policies and rhetoric.

Thomas Homan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, recently said that President Trump "has done more for our border security and public safety than any of the six presidents I've work for."

Now the president must complete the job of making immigration work for our country and put the safety and economic prosperity of America first.

We need to build the wall on our border with Mexico, end the visa lottery, restrict chain migration to only spouses and minor children, and move swiftly toward a merit-based immigration system. With those reforms, we can again be the "city on a hill" that attracts the migrants of the world with the skills and drive to help Make America Great Again.

Steve Cortes is a Fox News contributor, former Trump campaign operative and spokesman for the Hispanic 100. For two decades, he worked on Wall Street as a trader and strategist.

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End chain migration, as Trump wants, and switch to merit-based immigration

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America is handling immigration all wrong. As the son of an immigrant father, I firmly believe immigration represents a pillar of America's long-term success and has kept our nation growing and dynamic for centuries. But our present misbegotten policies must be reformed to select immigrants based on merit, rather than family ties.

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President Donald Trump plans to cut legislation in half. The course of action would build up the most sweeping changes to the plan of honest to goodness movement in decades and addresses the president's latest push to stem the surge of newcomers to the United States.

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But by endorsing legal immigration cuts, a move he has long supported, Mr. Trump returned to a theme that has defined his short political career and excites his conservative base at a time when his poll numbers continue to sink. Just 33 percent of Americans approved of his performance in the latest Quinnipiac University survey, the lowest rating of his presidency, and down from 40 percent a month ago.

Democrats and some Republicans quickly criticized the move. "Instead of catching criminals, Trump wants to tear apart communities and punish immigrant families that are making valuable contributions to our economy," said Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "That's not what America stands for."

The bill, sponsored by Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia, would institute a merit-based system to determine who is admitted to the country and granted legal residency green cards, favoring applicants based on skills, education and language ability rather than relations with people already here. The proposal revives an idea included in broader immigration legislation supported by President George W. Bush that died in 2007.

More than one million people are granted legal residency each year, and the proposal would reduce that by 41 percent in its first year and 50 percent by its 10th year, according to projections cited by its sponsors. The reductions would come largely from those brought in through family connections. The number of immigrants granted legal residency on the basis of job skills, about 140,000, would remain roughly the same.

Under the current system, most legal immigrants are admitted to the United States based on family ties. American citizens can sponsor spouses, parents and minor children for an unrestricted number of visas, while siblings and adult children are given preferences for a limited number of visas available to them. Legal permanent residents holding green cards can also sponsor spouses and children.

In 2014, 64 percent of immigrants admitted with legal residency were immediate relatives of American citizens or sponsored by family members. Just 15 percent entered through employment-based preferences, according to the Migration Policy Institute, an independent research organization. But that does not mean that those who came in on family ties were necessarily low skilled or uneducated.

The legislation would award points based on education, ability to speak English, high-paying job offers, age, record of achievement and entrepreneurial initiative. But while it would still allow spouses and minor children of Americans and legal residents to come in, it would eliminate preferences for other relatives, like siblings and adult children. The bill would create a renewable temporary visa for older-adult parents who come for caretaking purposes.

The legislation would limit refugees offered permanent residency to 50,000 a year and eliminate a diversity visa lottery that the sponsors said does not promote diversity. The senators said their bill was meant to emulate systems in Canada and Australia.

The projections cited by the sponsors said legal immigration would decrease to 637,960 after a year and to 539,958 after a decade.

"Our current system does not work," Mr. Perdue said. "It keeps America from being competitive and it does not meet the needs of our economy today."

Mr. Cotton said low-skilled immigrants pushed down wages for those who worked with their hands. "For some people, they may think that that's a symbol of America's virtue and generosity," he said. "I think it's a symbol that we're not committed to working-class Americans, and we need to change that."

But Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, noted that agriculture and tourism were his state's top two industries. "If this proposal were to become law, it would be devastating to our state's economy, which relies on this immigrant work force," he said. "Hotels, restaurants, golf courses and farmers," he added, "will tell you this proposal to cut legal immigration in half would put their business in peril."

Cutting legal immigration would make it harder for Mr. Trump to reach the stronger economic growth that he has promised. Bringing in more workers, especially during a time of low unemployment, increases the size of an economy. Critics said the plan would result in labor shortages, especially in lower-wage jobs that many Americans do not want.

The National Immigration Forum, an advocacy group, said the country was already facing a work force gap of 7.5 million jobs by 2020. "Cutting legal immigration for the sake of cutting immigration would cause irreparable harm to the American worker and their family," said Ali Noorani, the group's executive director.

Surveys show most Americans believe legal immigration benefits the country. In a Gallup poll in January, 41 percent of Americans were satisfied with the overall level of immigration, 11 percentage points higher than the year before and the highest since the question was first asked in 2001. Still, 53 percent of Americans remained dissatisfied.

The plan endorsed by Mr. Trump generated a fiery exchange at the White House briefing when Stephen Miller, the president's policy adviser and a longtime advocate of immigration limits, defended the proposal. Pressed for statistics to back up claims that immigration was costing Americans jobs, he cited several studies that have been debated by experts.

"But let's also use common sense here, folks," Mr. Miller said. "At the end of the day, why do special interests want to bring in more low-skill workers?"

He rejected the argument that immigration policy should also be based on compassion. "Maybe it's time we had compassion for American workers," he said.

When a reporter read him some of the words from the Statue of Liberty - "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" - Mr. Miller dismissed them. "The poem that you're referring to was added later," he said. "It's not actually part of the original Statue of Liberty."

He noted that in 1970, the United States allowed in only a third as many legal immigrants as it now does: "Was that violating or not violating the Statue of Liberty law of the land?"

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But by endorsing legal immigration cuts, a move he has long supported, Mr. Trump returned to a theme that has defined his short political career and excites his conservative base at a time when his poll numbers continue to sink.

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Donald J. Trump has put together what is known as the raise act. The Raise act will reduce poverty, increase wages, and save tax payers billions of dollars. It will change the way the United states issues green cards to nationals from other countries.

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A SURGE IN UNSKILLED IMMIGRATION: For decades, low-skilled and unskilled immigration into the United States has surged, depressing wages and harming America's most vulnerable citizens.

Our system does not prioritize the most highly skilled immigrants-just 1 out of every 15 immigrants to the United States comes here because of their skills.
On average, 1 million immigrants are accepted into the United States for legal permanent residency annually, and most of them are low or unskilled workers. This influx is the equivalent of adding more than the population of San Francisco to the country every year.

More than 50 percent of all immigrant households receive welfare benefits, compared to only 30 percent of native households in the United States that receive welfare benefits.
Immigrants with a college education or higher are, on average, less likely to be welfare recipients than those without the same degree of education.

Since 1979, Americans with a high school diploma or less have seen their real hourly wages decline.
American workers without a high school diploma have seen their real hourly wages fall by 17 percent.

THE RAISE ACT PUTS AMERICAN WORKERS FIRST: President Donald J. Trump supports the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act to prioritize immigrants based on the skills they bring to our Nation while safeguarding the jobs of American workers.

The RAISE Act replaces the current permanent employment-visa framework with a skills-based system that rewards applicants based on their individual merits.

The system rewards education, English-language ability, high-paying job offers, past achievements, and entrepreneurial initiative.

This system is similar to the merit-based immigration systems used by Canada and Australia.

The RAISE Act reduces overall immigration numbers to limit low-skilled and unskilled labor entering the United States.

The RAISE Act prioritizes immediate family members of United States residents, including spouses and minor children, but ends preferences for extended family members and adult children.
United States citizens needing to take care of elderly parents can receive renewable, temporary visas for them.

The RAISE Act eliminates the outdated Diversity Visa lottery system, which serves questionable economic and humanitarian interests.

The RAISE Act limits permanent resident status for refugees to 50,000 a year, in line with the 13-year average.

A PROMISE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: The RAISE Act follows through on President Trump's promise to the reform our immigration system to put America first.

President Trump on July 26, 2017:
"As we speak, we are working with two wonderful Senators, Tom Cotton and David Perdue, to create a new immigration system for America. Instead of today's low-skill system, just a terrible system where anybody comes in."

President Trump on February 28, 2017:

"Protecting our workers also means reforming our system of legal immigration. The current, outdated system depresses wages for our poorest workers and puts great pressure on our taxpayers."

"Switching away from this current system of lower-skilled immigration, and instead adopting a merit-based system, we will have so many more benefits. It will save countless dollars, raise workers' wages, and help struggling families - including immigrant families - enter the middle class."

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President Donald J. Trump Backs RAISE Act | The White House

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Bill will create a merit-based immigration system that protects our workers, our taxpayers, and our economy A SURGE IN UNSKILLED IMMIGRATION: For decades, low-skilled and unskilled immigration into the United States has surged, depressing wages and harming America's most vulnerable citizens. Our system does not prioritize the most highly skilled immigrants-just 1 out of every ...