President Trump’s proposal for an immigration deal is highly flawed, says Mark Krikorian who heads the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). It offers amnesty to a million more illegal than proposed under the DACA program. Processing the extra million, says Krikorian, would divert DHS resources from immigration law enforcement.
Trump’s proposal also calls for an end to chain migration, but it would not eliminate the backlog of people who have already applied. This it would be almost two decades before legal immigration, now at the highest sustained level in our history, would begin to decline.
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