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critical to ending the border crisis is removing all incentives for smuggling women and

children part of the president's speech there from the white house lawn about the new

immigration proposal floated by his administration and to discuss that proposition and some of

the Gallup poll numbers we were talking about in a lot more about immigration illegal immigration

marketiquarian joins us in studio what an honor mark as the executive director of the Center

for Immigration Studies mark its good to come by good to see in person glad to be here

thank you for having me sure we've talked many many times through the years so you want

to give us a brief reaction to the proposal what you heard yesterday there's a lot good in

there because part of it is illegal immigration measures in other words plugging these loopholes

that are drawing people to the border that the cartels are well aware of and exploit exactly

and the other part the one that's gotten more attention is the legal immigration changes and

the point there is to focus family immigration on just nuclear family husbands wives and little kids

and then move all of those green card numbers basically into a new merit-based system where they

would pick people based on a point system where you get points for you know your degree and what

you're doing what your age is that sort of thing and then people who make the cut would be able to

get in so all of that I'm for the part that I'm worried about is that this doesn't even have a

token reduction in the overall level of immigration the president's proposal endorses the current

1.1 million new legal immigrants a year and even a little cut would at least have acknowledged

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