By Seung Min Kim Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow May 7 at 7:41 PM The White House is renewing a contentious battle over legal immigration, looking beyond toughened enforcement policies and President Trump’s push for a border wall to dive into the thorny issue of how many — and what kind of — immigrants should be admitted into the United States.
Kushner is pitching an overhaul to the legal immigration system that wouldn’t change the overall number of green cards issued per year, according to Senate Republicans briefed on the matter, but would ensure a significantly larger proportion is set aside for immigrants based on their professional skills and education backgrounds, rather than on family ties.
Kushner presented the broad contours of the proposal, senators said, and the administration stressed that it wants to fix a complicated system of granting visas that had become more complex with each subsequent new law. Some Republicans did have questions. For instance, Sen. Kevin Cramer pressed administration officials on how they would address the per-country caps on immigrants that critics say aggravate an already lengthy backlog of high-skilled visa applicants from countries such as India.
The broader concept of the green-card changes is drawn from a bill reintroduced last month by some of Trump’s most conservative allies that would no longer allow certain family members — such as siblings, adult children and parents of U.S. citizens — to be sponsored for permanent residency. Revamping the nation’s byzantine immigration laws is a new focus for Kushner, who has been riding on the momentum of a successful effort to revise sentencing laws and better rehabilitate low-level offenders late last year. Amid the partial government shutdown this year, Trump tasked Kushner — who is married to the president’s eldest daughter, Ivanka — to take the lead in crafting parts of the administration’s immigration agenda.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
The DEMS who refuse to do their jobs, should be suspended. They were ALL ELECTED to enact new legislation! The Border Crisis (Failure) is theirs and theirs alone! They are too busy trying to ruin our President!
What will happen to the overly quaffed Jewish Jarred when Putin takes over and decides that Jews are unliked by him?
This can't be good
Jared couldn’t negotiate his way out of a paper bag
“Merit immigration”?! Don’t adopt Trump-Miller racist anti-immigrant propaganda terminology Sen. Durbin.
If they have to rally them, then they know it’s not good plan. But the spineless Republicans will give in as usual
Get them the hell outta there!!!
Should be an easy lift, what with Trumps wellspring of good will.
Something is very wrong with that person
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