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不知道，这是 行政命令，还是需要参众两院投票？
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Trump To Outline Immigration Plan That Would Overhaul Who Is Allowed Into The U.S.
May 15, 2019 4:01 PM ET
President Trump is set to unveil an immigration plan that would vastly change who is allowed into the United States.
Trump will present the plan in a speech from the White House Rose Garden Thursday afternoon.
The new plan would focus on reducing family-based immigration to the U.S. in favor of employment-skill-based immigration.
But overall, the number of green cards issued under this plan would not change, and there would be no reduction in net immigration.
The bottom line politically, said the administration official: "We want to show the country that Republicans are not against immigrants."
Democrats have not been consulted on the formulation of this plan. And getting it to pass the Democratic-controlled House or the Senate, where Republicans do not have a filibuster-proof majority, are next to impossible. But with the president up for reelection next year, the White House is making a calculation to put this plan front and center.
The plan, according to a senior administration official, addresses six issues:
- Securing the border: Finishing the border wall
- Protecting American wages: Stemming the flow of low-wage labor
- Attracting and retaining the best and brightest immigrants
- Prioritizing nuclear families: It would limit the family members who can come to the country to children and spouses
- Importing labor for critical industries
- Preserving humanitarian values: Keep the asylum system, but limit it.
The formula currently for who comes to the country is 12% skill-based, 66% with ties to family members and 22% humanitarian, or asylum-seekers.
Trump would change that calculation to 57% skill, 33% family, 10% humanitarian. To determine who is a highly skilled immigrant, people would be awarded points based on their education and their language proficiency.
But the number of green cards would stay the same at approximately 1.1 million per year.
Of the four pillars that the administration has always stressed — border security, citizenship, a guest-worker program and what to do with immigrants who have entered the country illegally, including DREAMers — the last two are not addressed.
President Trump has taken a hard line toward immigrants entering the country illegally or seeking asylum. It's part of what vaulted him to the presidency and made his base loyal to him.
One key question is what tone Trump strikes in his Thursday remarks. A more moderate tone may suggest that the White House is concerned about Trump's political standing as the 2020 election gets underway.
But Trump is notoriously unpredictable and may go off-script.
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Trump Outlines 'Merit-Based' Immigration Plan, Still Far From Becoming Law
May 16, 2019 5:00 AM ET
President Trump has announced an immigration proposal that would dramatically reshape the legal immigration system in the United States.
The plan "puts jobs, wages and safety of American workers first," Trump said in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday.
"We must implement an immigration system that will allow our citizens to prosper for generations to come," he said.
The plan does not address the pressing challenge of what to do about the estimated 11 million people currently in the country illegally, one of the core issues that has animated Trump's presidency.
The speech was notably softer in tone for a president who has often used harsh language when describing immigrants.
Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has been quietly working on the plan for months and briefed Republican senators on the details Tuesday. A senior administration official, who spoke to reporters Wednesday on the condition that his name not be used, said the proposal is a "good faith effort" intended to unify Republicans and start a discussion.
"Right now this is the Trump plan, and we're hoping this will become the Republican plan," the official said.
The plan would prioritize merit-based immigration, limiting the number of people who could get green cards by seeking asylum or based on family ties. But it would keep immigration levels static, neither increasing or decreasing the number of people allowed to legally enter the U.S. each year. Here are the elements of the proposal as described to reporters on Wednesday:
- Securing the border: Finishing the border wall
- Protecting American wages: Stemming the flow of low-wage labor
- Attract and retain the best and brightest immigrants
- Prioritize nuclear families: It would limit which family members can come to the country to children and spouses
- Import labor for critical industries
- Preserve humanitarian values: Keep asylum system, but limit it.
Trump described the current immigration system as being largely based on "random chance," insisting that the administration's proposal would set clearer requirements for admission.
"We want immigrants coming in; we cherish the open door," Trump said. "But a big proportion of those immigrants should come in through merit and skill."
The announcement comes as the Trump administration is struggling to deal with a dramatic increase in asylum seekers trying to enter the U.S. along the southern border, creating what many are now calling a humanitarian crisis.
Earlier this year, President Trump declared a national emergency to go against the wishes of Congress and shift funds to build the border wall he promised during his presidential campaign. So White House aides see this as an ideal moment to try again to reshape the immigration system and enhance border security, something that requires congressional buy-in.
Democrats are unlikely to support any immigration proposal that doesn't also address the young people who came to the U.S. as children and are now here illegally, known as Dreamers. President Trump moved to eliminate the Obama-era program to give them work permits and protection from deportation, and the program is now in limbo pending court action.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the White House proposal, "repackaged the worst of its past failed immigration plans" and described it as "dead-on-arrival" and "not a remotely serious proposal."
The last time Trump and his White House proposed an immigration overhaul, it included a path to citizenship for Dreamers. While potentially more detailed, this proposal is less comprehensive than previous offers by Trump and his administration.
Asked about this omission, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday, "Because it's a serious program, it's not included. Every single time that we have put forward or anyone else has put forward any type of immigration plan and it's included DACA, it's failed. It's a divisive thing. Certainly something to discuss and look at and address but this plan is focused on fixing a different part of the immigration system."
DACA has actually registered strong bipartisan support among voters. A 2018 Gallup poll found that 83% of Americans backed giving citizenship to DACA recipients.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a close ally of Trump's, said the proposal was purposely narrow by not addressing those in the country already.
"I don't think it's designed to get Democratic support as much as it is to unify the Republican Party around border security," Graham said, who characterized it more as a "negotiating position" than a legislative proposals. "This is what we want on border security, this is what we want on merit-based immigration, and then we'll have to sit down and find common ground on the 11 million."
Graham, who attended Thursday's announcement, was involved in the last major bipartisan effort to overhaul immigration in 2013. That legislation passed the Senate but failed in the House. Trump's proposal has zero chance of becoming law without bipartisan support. And at the moment it isn't clear whether it has Republican buy-in, much less Democrats.
And the proposal is likely to run into trouble from the right, too, because it doesn't restrict legal immigration.
"This bill will only get worse. As a starting point it's not acceptable," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Krikorian wants to see the level of legal immigration reduced and is concerned that the Trump proposal doesn't even start by calling for a cut in immigration.
"I don't think any of them really understands how important it is to his voters that there be some acknowledgement that numbers need to come down," said Krikorian. "Is it an actual legislative vehicle or is it a campaign statement? And if it is real legislation why would they start with what is already a compromise position? The art of the deal says you start with an aggressive position. Why wouldn't this have cuts to legal immigration."
While insisting that this is a serious proposal, the White House official also suggested that the Democrats running for president should be asked about the plan.
It currently isn't in the form of legislation, and there are no lawmakers signed on as sponsors. But Trump called the plan "pro-American, pro-immigrant and pro-worker. It's just common sense."
"If for some reason, possibly political, we can't get the Democrats to approve this merit-based, high-security plan, then we will get it approved immediately after the election when we take back the House, keep the Senate, and of course, hold the presidency," Trump said on Thursday.
After a pause for applause, he added: "But wouldn't it be nice to do it sooner than that?"
NPR's Mara Liasson, Susan Davis, Domenico Montanaro and Dana Farrington contributed reporting to this story.
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