The Trump Administration is currently working on a plan to enforce legal and merit-based immigration.
However, this measure is already facing backlash from Democrats; earlier today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced the plan as “condescending” during her press conference delivery.
Reviewing Pelosi’s Take on Merit-Based Immigration
The House Speaker maintains that in regards to immigration, families serve as merited in and of themselves. Pelosi also expressed her belief that the White House’s immigration plan is unfairly patronizing to immigrants.
In her own words:
“It is really a condescending word. They’re saying family is without merit?”
Pelosi then challenged the idea that titles, occupations, and self-sufficiency are synonymous to merit-based immigration.
“Are they saying most of the people who have ever come to the United States in the history of our country are without merit because they don’t have an engineering degree? Certainly, we want to attract the best to our country, and that includes many people from many parts of society. So we’ll see what values are reflected there. We’ve only heard titles like merit, which is non-merit. It means merit in the eyes of Donald Trump.”
