Here’s what critics get wrong about the merit-based immigration plan Trump supports

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But even less emotional and sober critics of the merit-based immigration idea are depicting it as a conflict between a pro-business/pro-growth agenda and a more compassionate response to any and all people seeking a better and safer life in America.

Here's the thing: A more merit-based immigration policy is actually a more compassionate policy, we just haven't heard that argument explained very much. (And, let's face it: Conservatives are really bad at explaining why their favorite policies aren't just practical or spur economic growth, but compassionate as well.)

If the proponents of our current family-based immigration policy believe they own the compassion card, they need to explain why importing millions of unskilled immigrants into this country without a corresponding number of higher-paid skilled people to provide them with work opportunities is so compassionate. And they also need to explain why it would be compassionate to add to the growing number of Americans of all kinds struggling to find a doctor.

But just watch. Any policy that helps higher skilled or wealthier citizens and immigrants alike reflexively gets attacked by liberal critics as another "trickle-down economics" boondoggle. That term was coined by the 1920s humorist Will Rogers to skewer President Herbert Hoover's policies meant to save the banks. It was resurrected by critics of President Ronald Reagan's tax cuts in the 1980s. Sloganeering like that might make for good soundbites and bumper stickers, but it adds little to a more serious debate we need to have about economics.

And there's good evidence beyond Donald Trump's election victory that Americans would respond very favorably to the above arguments for merit-based immigration. The most recent major poll on this issue conducted by the Pew Research Center shows Americans who are in favor of a merit-based immigration policy outnumber those who oppose it by a 56-to-37 percent margin.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/03/her...migration-plan-trump-supports-commentary.html

 

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Fake news, it's not even reported in the MMS.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

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