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Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
Thu May 16, 2019, 03:55 PM May 2019

New Trump immigration plan would overhaul green card system

Source: The Columbus Dispatch-Associated Press

The latest effort, spearheaded by Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, focuses on beefing up border security and rethinking the nation’s green card system so that it would favor people with high-level skills, degrees and job offers instead of relatives of those already in the country.
WASHINGTON — Setting aside some of his hard-line rhetoric on illegal immigration, President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wanted to recruit “top talent” to the nation as he unveiled his latest efforts to reform residency laws after years of setbacks and stalemates.
“We discriminate against genius,” Trump said of current policies, which he contended excessively favor family based immigration. “We discriminate against brilliance. We won’t anymore once we get this passed.”

Read more: https://www.dispatch.com/zz/news/20190516/new-trump-immigration-plan-would-overhaul-green-card-system

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at140

(6,110 posts)
1. That is a copy of New Zealand immigration system
Thu May 16, 2019, 04:00 PM
May 2019

So it did not originate in the orange man's brain. was talking to people at NZ embassy, and now they keep emailing me.

at140

(6,110 posts)
4. We should not copy any country
Thu May 16, 2019, 04:15 PM
May 2019

Because this is a unique country. That included Sweden with 8 million people. What works there won't work here. May be China would be a good model to copy because their middle class size has exploded while ours is shrinking. And China is big enough to copy.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
2. Great idea. Let's make Americans compete with even more foreign workers
Thu May 16, 2019, 04:08 PM
May 2019

for what should be the highest paying, most skilled jobs (employers will love this because the competition will bring salaries down).

And we don't need any more family members coming in to take the jobs most Americans don't want. Let's keep all those families separated.

Thanks, Trump!



 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
7. We need more people to work in factories to revitalize factories in this country
Thu May 16, 2019, 04:34 PM
May 2019

Not high skilled people who will have to compete with H1B temporary visas brought from India who get paid almost minimum wages.

Stop the outsourcing and we will all be doing better.

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)
8. I wonder how my (ex) Trumper HMO Doc feels about this, HB1 visas basis of his rant.
Thu May 16, 2019, 04:53 PM
May 2019

And I doubt he's alone among the RW Docs. This will really piss them off... heh,heh

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)
9. Yet Trump is determined to deport all our US educated DACA kids.Another Trump idiotic contradiction.
Thu May 16, 2019, 05:13 PM
May 2019

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Add this one to Trump's pile of anti America ( probably self enriching as well) "policies".

Noteable that a Trump & Kushner racket is selling green cards to wealthy immigrants (@ minimum $500,000 a pop) as "job creating" investments in their condo projects. This just expands their wealthy HB1/green card client/profit pool.

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
11. They have a $ in front of them
Fri May 17, 2019, 12:30 PM
May 2019

Kushner’s motives are pretty obvious: he wants to transfer the costs of the H1B program to the workers, so he’s going to reengineer the program to make the indentured servants pay for it.

area51

(11,868 posts)
12. "Trump said Thursday that he wanted to recruit 'top talent' to the nation"
Fri May 17, 2019, 11:02 PM
May 2019

Oh really? Like his ho wife who got in, claiming she knew 5 languages, when the only other language she knows is nudity?

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