White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short said Donald Trump insists on changes to “chain migration” or Dreamers will not be protected. “Merit-based” is a code phrase for reducing legal immigration by up to 50 percent and eliminating almost all family immigration categories and the Diversity Visa lottery. In a typical example, in 1885, Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump’s grandfather, immigrated from Germany as a 16-year-old with little English to join his oldest sister. Six years later, she met Fred Trump at a party, they married and had children, one of whom was Donald Trump. Family immigrants found many of America’s small businesses, which means eliminating key immigration categories will reduce the number of new businesses.

Source: Forbes January 12, 2018 05:37 UTC