Trump wants talented people to come to US, calls for border wall to stop illegal immigration

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Trump wants talented people to come to US, calls for border wall to stop illegal immigration

Friday, 04 January 2019 | PTI | Washington

President Donald Trump has said he wants talented people who can help American companies to grow to enter the US, asserting that a wall along the Mexico border is the only way to check illegal immigration.

Chairing the first Cabinet meeting of the year, Trump said on Wednesday there was a need to fix the “crazy” loopholes in the immigration system.

“We want to end all of this nonsense, the visa lottery system. So, they pick them out of a jar,” he said in his remarks at the meeting which was dominated by the issue of illegal migration and border security.

“We want to pick people to come into our country on the basis of merit and talent so that all of the companies that are moving in, we have large numbers of companies, many, many companies, and more than we’ve seen in many years, the companies that have left our country are coming back because of what’s going on,” he said.

“You see, our job numbers are great. We need people to come in but we can’t have these loopholes. These loopholes are crazy,” Trump said.

He reiterated his wish to end loopholes in the legal immigration system so as to attract more people based on merit.

Trump said his administration wants people to come into the country legally and on merit.

“We need people to come in to our country. But they have to do it through the system, they have to do it legally and we want people that can help our country - where it can be based on merit and achievement, people that are going to be helped, the companies that are going to be coming into our countries, which are so many,” he said.

Trump said every day border patrol encounters roughly 2,000 illegal immigrants trying to enter the US.

Every week, 300 Americans are killed by heroin, the vast majority of which comes across through our southern border.

 “Our southern border is like a sieve. It just pours through our southern border. And unless we’re going to have physical barriers, it’s never going to be able to be stopped. Too much money is being made,” he said.

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