So many head-fakes in Trump's #immigration speech this afternoon. Odd to ask Congress for something ("promote high-skill immigrants!") while pushing the Exec Branch to do the opposite. The former isn't gonna happen; the latter is happening every day.
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Head-fake #1:
Trump waxed eloquent about the virtues of U.S. #citizenship...
...while DHS and DOJ are erecting myriad new obstacles to naturalization, which is directly contrary to any rational goal of #immigrant integration/assimilation.
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Head-fake #2:
Trump bemoaned the flight of would-be #entrepreneurs from U.S. universities back to their home countries...
...while DHS continues to block the International Entrepreneur Rule (#IER), which was designed to address this very problem.
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Head-fake #3:
Trump promised to put spouses and children of U.S. citizens in the "front of the line" for green cards...
...but that's what the law already does! Meanwhile, DHS wants to make it much harder for U.S. citizens to sponsor their spouses.
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Finally, if Trump's zero-sum plan became law (which it won't), millions of U.S. citizens would no longer be able live in America with their parents and grown children.
Details are still sketchy, but here's my best guess as to how they want to reallocate annual green cards:
Trump's #immigration plan is even worse than it looks: @NFAPResearch notes that it would likely force everyone in the green card backlogs to start all over again: 3.6M people w/ U.S. family sponsors + >500k Indian workers already here. @immivoice @SIIA_US forbes.com/sites/stuartan…
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