U.S. Immigration: Who Should Get In?

NPR’s Talk of the Nation (here) discusses legal immigration and the point system in the immigration reform proposal.  Currently, priority for green cards goes to relatives of immigrants already in the United States. The new immigration bill switches priority from family relations to skills and facility with English. Critics say this change is evidence of elitism, while supporters argue it is simply good economic sense. Jeanne Butterfield, executive director, American Immigration Lawyers Association, and Tamar Jacoby, senior fellow, The Manhattan Institute, offer contrasting views on the subject.

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