US President Donald Trump will outline on Thursday a plan to harden border security and overhaul the legal immigration system to favour applicants who speak English, are well-educated and have job offers, senior administration officials said. Trump’s plan would keep legal immigration steady at 1.1 million people a year, but family-based immigration would account for only a third of that. It would harden the border by building more of Trump’s coveted southern border wall and improve inspections of goods and people at ports of entry to fight drug smuggling. Trump will propose ending the diversity lottery system, which offers applicants from countries with low immigration rates the chance to move to the United States. The plan also proposes changes to the asylum process, which the Trump administration says is abused.

Source: Hindustan Times May 16, 2019 02:48 UTC