“I don’t think it’s designed to get Democratic support as much as it is to unify the Republican Party around border security,” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters Tuesday.
President Donald Trump is set to unveil a new immigration proposal Thursday that will address legal immigration and establish a “merit-based” system to give preference to individuals with more high-skilled backgrounds. But the plan, conceived by Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, is meant to unite Republicans—not actually become law.
Trump’s 2016 campaign platform was largely centered on immigration. But the longest government shutdown in history, which ended earlier this year and was due to a funding battle for the president’s long-promised border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, in addition to the declaration of a national emergency to obtain said funding, only further divided Republican senators.
But "whether it will or not," he added,"I don’t know." It's a similar sentiment that other Republicans expressed throughout the week. "We have to, I believe, come to comprehensive immigration reform. I think that the president knows that," she said."But we have to do it in a way that secures our border, has a path to citizenship, respects the value of family.""Are they saying most of the people who have ever come to the United States, in the history of our country, are without merit because they don't have an engineering degree?" Pelosi added.
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