permafrost wrote:
each time we have a conversation about the wall, which has a total of zero new miles, 76 repaired miles and less then one mile built by a private party, the wall supporters insist that trump and therefore they fully support legal immigration and we need to mind what they say.. and trump would never lie..
But what is the t***h?
with what seems like a never ending effort, changing of information, paper work and the true status becomes very much a formidable paper wall to those legal immigrants who trump claims to be valuable immigrants desired by the nation
some facts on the further results of the real reprobate in the oval office..
In the two years after Trump took office, denials for H1Bs, the most common form of visa for sk**led workers, more than doubled. In the same period, wait times for citizenship also doubled, while average processing times for all kinds of visas jumped by 46 percent, even as the quantity of applications went down. In 2018, the United States added just 200,000 immigrants to the population, a startling 70 percent less than the year before.
Before Trump was elected, there was virtually no support within either party for policies that make it harder for foreigners to come here legally. For decades, the Republican consensus has favored tough border security along with high levels of legal immigration. The party’s small restrictionist wing protested from the margins, but it was no match for a pro-immigration coalition encompassing business interests, unions and minority groups. In 2013, then-Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions introduced an amendment that would have lowered the number of people who qualified for green cards and work visas. It got a single v**e in committee—his own. As a former senior official at the Department of Homeland Security observed, “If you told me these guys would be able to change the way the U.S. does immigration in two years, I would have laughed.”
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