{"id":6763,"date":"2019-05-16T23:26:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T23:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2019-05-16T23:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T23:26:04","slug":"trump-wants-totally-brilliant-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/2019\/05\/16\/trump-wants-totally-brilliant-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants \u2018totally brilliant immigrants\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON: President <\/span>Donald Trump on <\/span>Thursday announced an immigration proposal that will be based on merit. <\/span> Trump unveiled his proposal in a Rose Garden news conference with little hard-line rhetoric. He says he wants to recruit the \u201cmost brilliant\u201d people to live in the U.S. through a system that rewards talent and brains.<\/p>\n

Trump is seeking to put a softer facade on the signature issue from his first campaign as he eyes a 2020 reelection. He said Thursday it was time to \u201crestore national unity.\u201d<\/p>\n

He suggested the plan could get passed after the 2020 election if necessary because the House could flip back to the GOP.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump says the immigration plan he\u2019s proposing would prioritize \u201ctotally brilliant\u201d immigrants.<\/p>\n

Trump on Thursday laid out a merit-based plan that would give preferential treatment to high-skilled workers. He says right now the U.S. immigration laws \u201cdiscriminate against genius\u201d and \u201cdiscriminate against brilliance\u201d because most of the green cards are given to low-skilled people who would make low wages.<\/p>\n

Under the plan, the country would award the same number of green cards as it now does. But far more would go to exceptional students, professionals and people with high-level and vocational degrees. Factors such as age, English language ability and employment offers would also be considered.<\/p>\n

Far fewer green cards would be given to people with relatives already in the U.S. Fifty-seven percent would be awarded on merit as opposed to the current 12%.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump is laying out a new immigration plan to convince the public and lawmakers that the U.S. legal migration system needs to be overhauled.<\/p>\n

Trump, speaking Thursday in the Rose Garden, says his plan aims to create a \u201cfair, modern and lawful system of immigration for the United States.\u201d He says: \u201cIt\u2019s about time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest effort, spearheaded by Trump\u2019s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, focuses on beefing up border security and rethinking the nation\u2019s green card system so that it would favor people with high-level skills, degrees and job offers instead of relatives of those already in the country.<\/p>\n

The plan is not yet embraced by his own party \u2014 let alone Democrats \u2014 and faces an uphill battle in Congress. (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an immigration proposal that will be based on merit. Trump unveiled his proposal in a Rose Garden news conference with little hard-line rhetoric. He says he wants to recruit the \u201cmost brilliant\u201d people to live in the U.S. through a system that rewards talent and brains. Trump is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,46,44,1,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6764,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions\/6764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durbinnepal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}