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Aug 06, 2017 News
By Attorney Gail Seeram
RAISE ACT – “The bottom line here is that the President believes we should have a merit-based system of immigration in this country,” the first official told CNN. Trump was joined by Republican Sens. David Perdue and Tom Cotton at the White House to discuss introduction of a new bill that looks to stop legal immigration into the United States by proposing a skills-based immigration system and reduce family-based immigration.
The bill cut back on what’s referred to as “chain migration,” ways of families immigrating to the United States that are based on family relationship and not based on skills. The bill would limit the types of family members of immigrants that can also be brought to the US to primarily spouses and minor children, would eliminate the international diversity visa lottery and limit the number of annual refugee admissions.
Don’t be fooled by arguments made by supporters of this legislation: there’s nothing smart or “merit-based” about this extremist proposal. If passed, this bill will hurt our economy and most importantly, it will prevent grandparents, mothers, fathers, and siblings from being able to legally reunite with their family members here in the U.S., reversing nearly a century of well-established policy that recognizes the value of keeping families together.
“What I’d like to do is a comprehensive immigration plan,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One in July. “But our country and political forces are not ready yet.”
DREAM ACT OF 2017 – On July 20, 2017, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced the bill titled Dream Act of 2017 (S. 1615), which would provide young immigrants who were brought to this country as children and grew up, commonly known as Dreamers, in the United States the chance to apply for lawful permanent residence, if they meet certain requirements.
A week later, two bills were introduced in the House of Representatives that would protect also Dreamers – the bipartisan Dream Act of 2017 (H.R. 3440), introduced by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), and the American Hope Act, introduced by Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
#GailLaw welcomes these efforts and calls on both the Senate and House of Representative to pass legislation protecting Dreamers and to urge the Trump Administration to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program until a more permanent solution is in place for these young immigrants. Currently DACA is under attack by a group of state Attorney Generals who have threatened to sue the Trump Administration if DACA isn’t ended by September 5, 2017.
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