Trump to propose plan for more merit-based immigration

Washington — US President Donald Trump will outline a plan on Thursday to harden border security and overhaul the legal immigration system to favour applicants who speak English, are well-educated and have job offers, say senior administration officials.

For decades, US immigration laws have given priority to family-based immigration, and about two-thirds of all people granted green cards each year have family ties to people in the US. “Our goal in the short term is to make sure that we are laying out what the president’s policy is in terms of what he’s looking for from immigration reform, and we would like to see if we could get the Republican Party to come together on these two pillars, which we think is a very, very logical, very mainstream point of view,” said one official.

Instead, Kushner and others looked at the legal migration systems of Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand for clues on how to shift US policy more towards attracting skilled workers and less on uniting extended families.

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