White House floats an offer to keep legal immigration at 1 million per year instead of cutting it

[DonViejo]

By BRIAN BENNETT
FEB 10, 2018 | 3:00 PM | WASHINGTON

As the Senate prepares to begin a free-wheeling debate over immigration next week, White House officials have begun floating a possible compromise idea — a pledge to maintain legal immigration at current levels, about 1.1 million people a year, for more than a decade.

President Trump has proposed a series of measures, including restrictions on family unification, which he calls "chain migration," and an end to the visa lottery, that critics say ultimately could cut legal immigration to America by 40% or more.

But a White House official said Saturday that the Trump administration is working with allies in the Senate on a proposal that would create a path to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million people who were brought to the country illegally as children, and that would clear the backlog of nearly 4 million sponsored relatives who currently are waiting for green cards.

The combined effort, officials said, would effectively make up for the cuts in other immigration categories for about 13 years, the official said. After that, if Congress takes no additional action to add or expand visa categories, the total number of people allowed to resettle in the U.S. each year likely would decline by hundreds of thousands.

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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-immigration-20180210-story.html

[aikoaiko]

1. But they all have to be from Norway.

But seriously, I'll never trust a Trump offer.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. political test for purity

From the article:

"It will be an opportunity for 1,000 flowers to bloom," McConnell told reporters this week, oddly echoing the phrase Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung used in 1956 to encourage criticism of the Communist Party before he violently purged the critics who stepped forward.

Looks to me like they will screen for the right kind of new voters.

There isn't a Republican anywhere in office that I would trust at this point.

Vote
American Democrats
NOT
Russian Republicans

[lark]

3. Ah, so now the true plan is emerging.

He puts out something he damn well knows the Dems can't support, then talks about removing part of the poison pill, the huge reduction in legal immigration. Don't trust them one bit, he'll turn on this to if Faux comes out against it. He's too stupid and lazy to form his own thoughts, just goes with the haters at Faux and of course there's always the young nazis Gorka and Miller to keep him on the wrong track for our country in case he tries to veer off after talking to Dems.