5 'America First' Legal Immigration Promises Trump Must Keep This Year

Every one percent increase in the immigrant workforce reduces Americans’ overall wages by 0.8 percent.Much of the inflow comes from the process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly arrived naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S., so Trump could drive up wages rather quickly for American workers by ending the category; ending the Diversity Visa Lottery program, which imports about 55,000 random foreign nationals every year; and implementing mandatory nationwide E-Verify to cut down on foreign competition in the U.S. labor market. Enforce Modern ‘Public Charge’ RuleTrump’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) seems to be planning to implement a modern “public charge” rule that would protect American taxpayers’ dollars from funding the mass importation of welfare-dependent foreign nationals.The USCIS rule provides that legal immigrants would be less likely to secure permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the past, including using Obamacare, food stamps, and public housing.Essentially, foreigners in the U.S. would not be allowed an “adjustment of status” to become green card holders unless they can show they will not be a burden on other Americans.The immigration controls would be a boon for American taxpayers in the form of an annual $57.4 billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year on paying for the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of 1.5 million new, mostly low-skilled legal immigrants.(Migration Policy Institute)As Breitbart News reported, the majority of the more than 1.5 million immigrants entering the country every year use about 57 percent more food stamps than the average native-born American household.