NumbersUSA:
This Issue: Sens. Cotton and Perdue meet with Pres. Trump to discuss RAISE and immigration reductions
Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue's RAISE Act received the unofficial endorsement of a key ally this week -- Pres. Trump.
Cotton
and Perdue visited the White House on Tuesday and told reporters after
their meeting with Pres. Trump that he was well-aware of their effort to
cut legal immigration by at least 40% by eliminating Chain Migration
and the Visa Lottery.
White House Spokesman Sean Spicer mentioned the meeting
during his Wednesday briefing, saying that Pres. Trump has a "natural
desire to have a full comprehensive look at [legal immigration]." Trump
called on Congress to move current immigration policy away from a system
that heavily favors family connections to a merit-based system that
would protect American workers and their wages during his joint address
last month.
This is a hopeful sign!
It's
been two decades since the bipartisan Jordan Commission recommended
reducing legal immigration by ending both Chain Migration and the Visa
Lottery. The joint congressional and presidential commission also
recommended capping refugee admissions at 50,000 -- another key
provision of the RAISE Act. But the current effort by Cotton and Perdue
is the first time in 20 years that legislation has been introduced in
the Senate addressing all the legal immigration recommendations of the
Commission.
During
Tuesday's meeting, Pres. Trump asked Sens. Cotton and Perdue to take a
lead role in re-examining the entire immigration system.
"We're
moving toward -- in coordination with the White House and the Senate
and the House -- conversations about how to deal with the pieces of
immigration that have been waiting to be fixed for over 30 years. One of
those is legal immigration, both family-oriented and employment-based
immigration," Sen. Perdue told Poltico.
GOP HEALTHCARE BILL CLEARS COMMITTEE HURDLES
The GOP healthcare reform bill cleared two House Committees on Thursday, moving it closer to vote on the House floor.
In
its current form, the American Healthcare Act does not strengthen the
existing identity verification procedures to prevent illegal aliens from
receiving taxpayer benefits under the plan.
Tens
of thousands of you have already sent free messages to Congress asking
for a system to verify the identity and immigration status of applicants
for benefits. If you haven't sent the message yet, click on the red
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in the last five years. Total border apprehensions decreased by 40% from
31,578 in January to only 18,762 in February.
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