Editorial: Trump's weak immigration proposal should be a prompt for actual comprehensive reform
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
May 17, 2019
3 minutes
The immigration reform plan put forward by the White House on Thursday is a woefully insufficient answer to a terribly difficult problem.
Under the plan President Trump outlined, the government would issue fewer family reunification visas to would-be residents and more merit-based visas weighted toward younger people with "valuable skills." They must speak English and pass an American civics course before admission, and it would help if they have a job offer or an advanced degree. Overall immigration levels would stay the same at about
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