Story highlights Two senators plan to roll back legal immigration in a three-pronged approachThe targeted bill falls in line with President Donald Trump's blue-collar appealWashington (CNN) As the immigration debate rages with a focus on building a wall along the US-Mexico border, two Republican senators proposed a bill Tuesday that would take on an entirely different issue: legal immigration. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia argue the current amount of legal immigration is bloated with low-skilled labor and has contributed to the declining wages of Americans with high school diplomas or less. The senators want to roll back legal immigration in a three-pronged approach that aims to cut the number of immigrants by half, to 500,000 annually. They say their plan would not touch visa programs for high-skilled workers. The targeted bill falls in line with President Donald Trump's blue-collar appeal and "America first" promises.

Source: CNN February 07, 2017 19:07 UTC