Nothing why do we have an immigration system to decide which immigrants we want to admit and build from there . We want people to be able to build their bring their spouses and other close immediate family members. We want our employers to have access to a global bullet talent, skilled individuals global pool of talent, skilled individuals. We want to continue to have a humanitarian admission program. How many people should we be offering resettlement to . We could probably do away with programs like the visa lottery and certain other ones that have outlived any useful purpose. Host what should be the goal . What do you think is the right number of immigrants coming into this country illegally each year . Guest it should be based on our and not becountry disadvantaging americans in any way if possible. To make sure people can keep their immediate Families Together if they happen to marry somebody from another country and to be able to attract this global pool of talent it is hard to se
Lawsuits in federal courts . Our members are certainly those volved in all of cases. One thing that weve seen in the Trump Administration is that the mpact on immigration is no loppinger isolated to a certain small set of policy objectives or goals. Really the whole entire mmigration system has seen a real shift in how immigration aw and policy is implemented, the intentions of the system i think have all been sort of challenged. Them members are all of really are actively involved in figuring out what is the policy currently. Nistration theyre actively involved in efforts to try to get the policy the more aligned with needs of the United States and the families who are here in country. Its been a full bore effort. Our topic for today on the washington journal is and campaign 2020. Ot a single democratic candidate says that the current immigration system is working. President trump often calms it a immigration system. If you were asked to fix the start . Where would you guest people ha
Continues. Host Jessica Vaughan is back at her desk. She serves as policy studies director at the center for immigration studies. Not a single democratic candidate thinks the current immigration system is working. President trump has called it broken repeatedly. If it were up to you to fix the system, where would you start . Guest i think i would start nothing why do we have an immigration system to decide which immigrants we want to admit and build from there . We want people to be able to build their bring their spouses and other close immediate family members. We want our employers to have access to a global bullet talent, skilled individuals global pool of talent, skilled individuals. We want to continue to have a humanitarian admission program. How many people should we be offering resettlement to . We could probably do away with programs like the visa lottery and certain other ones that have outlived any useful purpose. Host what should be the goal . What do you think is the righ
Mark good morning. My name is mark krikorian, the executive director of the center for immigration studies, and we are doing this panel on the issue of the Foreign Student Program. The admission of foreign students and scholars is a federal Government Program like any other, farm subsidies or what have you, and it is almost exclusively discussed in positive terms, but in fact like any other Government Program, it has benefits but also costs. Pluses and minuses. The challenges that come from it, whether related to National Security or other issues, are never addressed. We want to have a panel that will try to introduce balance into this discussion of the Foreign Student Programs. Our first speaker is dan cadman, a center fellow, a veteran of ins and dhs, and he has a report on the table outside and also online on the National Security challenges that Foreign Student Program poses. Our second speaker is another fellow from the center, david north, who has been doing immigration policy lo
On can also catch up with us social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. You can start calling in right now as we show you the headline from todays washington times. Trump takes a step toward meeting with iran leaders saying it could happen if sir if the circumstances were correct or right. [video clip] a country ofan is potential. We are not looking for leadership change. This country has been through that many times before. That doesnt work. We are looking for no Nuclear Weapons, no Ballistic Missiles in a longer period of time. Canally believe that iran be a great nation. I would like to see that happen, but they cant have Nuclear Weapons. If the circumstances were correct, were right, i would agree to that. To be meantime, they have good players. You understand what that means, and they cant do what they were saying they will do because if they do that, they will be met with violent choice. Set, no date for a me