On Wednesday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi hammered President Trump's merit based immigration plan as well as slamming First Lady Melania Trump by questioning if her parents would have been able to enter the United States under this plan.





“I don’t know if merit counted for when his wife’s family came into the country,” Pelosi said. “I don’t know. Maybe it did. God bless them if it did. But he calls that ‘chain migration,’ which he wants to get rid of.”

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“Should we attach a green card to the diploma of so many scientists and engineers and all the rest and graduate students who train in the U.S. so that they can stay here?” Pelosi asked. “Of course. But that’s not the point. The point is that the president does not share the view of even Ronald Reagan and two Bushes in recent history.”

These comments were made while speaking at an event in San Francisco. Pelosi also added that this proposal by the President was just to "make America white again."

Last year, attorney to Melania Trump, Michael Wildes told The Hill that it took many years for her parents to become residents in America.

"In Melania Trump’s case, it took years for her to become an American citizen, then years for her to petition for her family and they went through the process, passing all of the American citizenship questions and everything just like any other person,” Wildes said.

In mid-May, President Trump unveiled his new merit based immigration plan which puts an emphasis on prioritizing skilled immigrant workers.

The President announced that his immigration plan’s “biggest change” is “to increase the proportion of highly skilled immigration from 12 percent to 57 percent.”

“Currently, about 12 percent of those immigrants qualify to enter based on their skills, while more than half are given permission to enter because of a family connection. Under Mr. Trump’s proposal, those numbers would be reversed, with nearly 60 percent of all visas going to immigrants with particular skills or offers of employment,” The New York Times reported. “That reversal would increase the overall education level of immigrants, the officials said, with nearly three-quarters of those migrating to the United States having bachelor’s degrees or an advanced degree under the new Trump plan.”

NBC News also reported that the proposal has two different parts: “a physical infrastructure component that would include border wall construction and be financed by new fees on trade collected at the border, and a revamped points system for those applying for U.S. citizenship.”

While holding a news conference in Rose Garden, the President stated that he wants to recruit the “most brilliant” people to come to America.

Members of the Trump administration are very optimistic about the plan.

“What we’re doing is completing step one, which is having a proposal,” a senior administration official said. “We’ll see how everyone reacts and then we’ll see what step two and step three look like.”

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