Merit based immigration

[samplegirl]

What trump calls the best and brightest🙄oh boy where have we heard that before?
What kind of merits????
Strippers???
Good bed making skills?
Pool cleaners?
Gardener?

Trump introduced a plan today...which does not matter!
Nothing more than a campaign speech! What a jackass!

[Baitball Blogger]

1. You know what we just saw with the college acceptance scandal?

Well, expect a clusterfuck of corruption behind Trump's immigration plan.

[Quemado]

2. Pool cleaners or pool boys?

In the case of Jerry Falwell Jr., more pool boys are needed.

[samplegirl]

6. Trump minions

[Freethinker65]

3. I am assuming anyone the GOP would confirm for a lifetime judicial appointment would qualify

Enforceable monitored loyalty oath will get you enough merit points.

[Skittles]

4. white merit

[samplegirl]

7. Exactly!

[Dirty Socialist]

5. Can you say "elitist"?

I'm sure you could!

I laugh whenever a Republican rube calls Democrats "elitists". Republicans engage in a LOT of projection, but this is the most obvious and glaring example.

[malaise]

8. You missed the 'crystal clear'?

I did bang my head

[Hekate]

9. Those crops don't pick themselves, but hey, immigrants are stealing American jobs...

The vast majority of Americans live so far away from farms they have no idea how food gets to the grocery store. They don't have the physical stamina to do the work, or the basic knowledge. To say it's not appealing to Americans barely scratches the surface.

One of America's greatest needs is for immigrants who know hands-on farm work, are willing to do it, and look on it as a way to provide a better life for their families.

It's gruelling work, dangerous -- much needs to improve; just ask Dolores Huerta. On the whole, I think they don't want their children to have to do it if they can do something better. California has a solid base of Latino small-businessmen and women whose parents or grandparents came over the border to work the fields.

So as far as I can tell, if we want our crops tended, we have to accommodate those who can do the work in every generation, and treat them like fellow humans.

[Totally Tunsie]

10. ...and more:

Skilled housekeepers?
Meal servers?
Busboys?
Doormen?
Bellboys?
Launderers?
Basically anyone who would be willing to work long hours for minimum wages in his clubs/hotels?

As long as they have merit to Donnie, they're eligible.

[Recursion]

11. It's roughly the same skillsets that get you an H1-B

So, IT, medicine, graphic design, etc. If you were to try to emigrate to, say, Canada you would find they (like most countries) have a job skill matrix they use to weight applicants. I like being the country that doesn't do that.

Fortunately this bill will probably lose all Republican support because it doesn't cut immigration numbers.