Trump proposes new immigration plan favouring skills over family
US President Donald Trump has said he wants to overhaul the immigration system to favour young, educated, English-speaking applicants with job offers instead of people with family ties to Americans. Setting aside some of his hardline rhetoric on irregular immigration, Trump said on Thursday that he wants to recruit “top talent” to the nation as he unveiled his latest efforts to reform residency laws after years of setbacks and stalemates. Trump’s plan, roundly panned by Democrats and immigration advocacy groups, is aimed at trying to unite Republicans – some who want to boost immigration, others who want to restrict it – ahead of the November 2020 presidential and congressional elections. “We discriminate against genius,” Trump said of current policies, which he contended excessively favour family-based immigration. “We won’t any more once we get this passed,” Trump said in a Rose Garden address to Republican lawmakers and Cabinet members. Currently, about two-thirds of the 1.1...
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