moved last week on immigration reform. friday, the house passed a bill to help the high skilled foreign workers become u.s. citizens. what are the hopes to pass the senate? how far could it go to solve the immigration problems? welcome. bob, what does the bill do? this scraps the diversity lottery. because it pulls the names out of a hat randomly, though it were a game show. assigns 55,000 green cards. the bill kills that. that is good. if that s all it did, count us in. but it takes the 55,000 green cards to give them to foreign students as green cards.
look at what we have in common. there were good proposals. we have to begin the dialogue. eric: bob, francisco says you have ideas. what are they? the best idea by the way, francisco and i disagree on the bill. any bill mass am necessarysy bill will be vetoed by the democrats. they hope to have one in the spring. that will probably happen. republicans will likely look at bipartisan consensus to do that. ultimately, what we need, we don t need addition on bad foundation. what we need is to change the immigration system from the insanity of chain migration whatby we are issuing green cards in the united states, million of them a year, simply on the fact that you happen to be related to someone here. we need less immigration and we need to move it to a skills