Trump-Miller: Cruel Harsh Merit Based Mainly Whites Only New Immigration Policy

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Introduction and Update on Topic of Trump and Miller’s new harsh anti-immigrant policy here from Market Watch:

It’s possible for a person to be ignorant. We all are, sometimes. And anyone who has lived in Donald Trump’s America knows what a pig looks like — “a greedy, dirty, or unpleasant person” can be found in the White House.

We’re now reminded that it’s possible for the Trump administration’s immigration policy to be both piggish and ignorant. Call it pig-ignorant, or “extremely stupid or uneducated,” per Oxford English Dictionary.

One refers, of course, to the administration’s new guidelines for granting green cards denoting permanent residency status to legal — yes, legal — immigrants. If a legal immigrant has the temerity to use government services — sign up for Medicaid, for example, or get hurt on the job and claim disability benefits — no green card for you.

Incredibly, the administration would even use credit scores and other measures to screen out people who might use services later.

The president with thousands of lawsuits, mostly over unpaid bills, President Tax Fraud, President Trump University, the man who went broke running casinos and has doubled the federal deficit from 2015 levels, wants to see immigrants’ credit reports.

Original material follows:

Who we are a nation – a people clearly stated here to greet new arrives – which was the original purpose of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor:

A line from a poem, “The New Colossus,” by the 19th Century American poet Emma Lazarus is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty:

                     “Give me your tired, your poor,             

                       Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, 
                       The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
                       Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
                       I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

The world can’t stop talking about immigration. It’s a topic that spurs political debates and sensationalized headlines, creates conflict and opportunity, affects the world over, and is emotional topped with hatred.

Unfortunately, the focus on immigration is mostly negative, and generalizations and stereotypes abound. Immigrants cause crises they are thought of as illegals they suck up resources and lower wages. If you’re Trump, they bring crime and drugs and are “rapists.” (From his 2016 speech – his own words, not mine).

Like most Americans (99% by some count unless you are 100% Native American) then I’m pretty sure you too are product of immigrants from Europe or some other place. And, whether we trace ours back one, two, three, or more generations, I’m pretty sure that it will show an immigrants base (most likely poor relatives who ended up successful later in life – that is basic America).

In fact, a lot of stuff wouldn’t have existed or happened, if it wasn’t for immigrants. Like books never written, movies never produced, clothes never made, or technology never invented without immigrants.

Most immigrants came here for our freedoms, opportunities, and future from the land they left for a number of reasons.

Now Trump and Miller’s Merit-based immigration policy as reported on and outlined here from the Washington Post, or here from VOA news, or here with video and more from Newsweek, and also here from The Hill.

Definition of Merit-based Immigration: It would reward points based on high-paying job offers, past achievements, English-language ability, and education. All that would be taken into account when green card applications are considered. It gives points for different characteristics, which are age, the salary you able to command, and how much money you are going to invest in the U.S. economy.  The higher the score, the more likely an immigrant would be admitted to the United States. 

For example, if you get a Nobel Prize, you automatically get 25 points, and you need 30 points to be eligible to apply. Now how about this, um? 

Trump’s “merit-based” immigration bill could (again) prompt renewed scrutiny into the first lady’s immigration history. Why? If such a system had been in place when Melania Knauss-Trump first moved to the United States in 1996, she wouldn’t have stood a chance of being able to stay, start a career as a fashion model, and to have met Trump. 

Background: Her immigration history first faced scrutiny when nude photos taken of her when she first came here were published in the New York Post. Questions arose over whether the photos were taken while she was here on a tourist visa (yet working as a model – which is illegal) or not. 

Subsequent reporting showed that she came to the United States on a tourist visa in August 1996. A few months later, she obtained an H-1B visa for “skilled workers” (re: The Associated Press).There were questions about whether she did some modeling work before getting her H-1B visa as well as how she obtained a green card in 2001 — due to her “extraordinary ability as a model.” 

All that was before she married Trump in 2006 and become and became a citizen (re: Vox.com report).

GOPers and anti-immigrants say a merit-based system would help lower immigration rates and ensure that the immigrants who do come are highly skilled and less likely to need public assistance, which I says is utter BS – cite:

Trump says: “The current family-based policy has placed substantial pressure on American workers, taxpayers, and community resources.”

(I note: Except for his ancestors the Drumpf family from Germany who spoke no English and few job skills and even Trump’s grandfather, Frederick Drumpf (later changed name to Trump) ran a whorehouse out West in the Gold Rush days).

BTW: Stephen Miller’s grandparents only spoke Yiddish. 

FYI: Update on more of Miller's background how he rose to this high position:

His great grand-father was denied citizenship

(Denied: He was ignorant)

CNN’s Jim Acosta who pinned down Miller on the issue, well his ancestors came from Cuba.

Sen. Mitch McConnell's wife Elaine Chao came from Taiwan when she was 8 years old.

VP Mike Pence's relatives came from Ireland and no special skills.

Critics say the American economy also needs low-skilled workers, and a merit-based system would hurt industries that rely on them, and they see the merit-based system as un-American and goes against the basic fundamental respect for family, our religious faiths, and of who we are as Americans.

Plus, a merit-based system would also cost the government more because the government would have to review the applications and pay resettlement costs that are currently covered by sponsoring families.

Specific Pro and Con of Merit-Based System:

​Proponents of merit-based immigration say the current system lowers wages and discourages assimilation.

A merit-based system would help lower immigration rates and ensure that the immigrants who do come are highly skilled and less likely to need public assistance.

“For decades, the United States was operated and has operated a very low-skill immigration system, issuing record numbers of green cards to low-wage immigrants,” Trump said in August when announcing his support for the RAISE: (Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy) Act.

But critics say the American economy also needs low-skilled workers, and a merit-based system would hurt industries that rely on them.

A merit-based system would also cost the government more because the government would have to review the applications and pay resettlement costs that are currently covered by sponsoring families.

Critics also see the merit-based system as un-American.

This proposal abandons the fundamental respect for the family which is at the heart of our faith, at the heart of who we are as Americans –

My 2 cents: Whatever it’s worth the Trump proposal stinks on so many levels it’s hard to list them all.

On this #1 issue for Trump: He is a racist and a man who has no honor – not one drop. Hopefully sound minds will not approve this insane idea into any policy for long term. That is not the American way.

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