Congressman Steve Scalise says supports President Donald Trump's immigration proposals, saying it creates a merit-based system for allowing people in the country legally.
"Right now, we have some of the dumbest laws on the books," Scalise said in an interview on Fox News. "If we educate somebody in America to be a computer scientist, an engineer—jobs we need in America. They want to stay in America. We force them to leave the country to compete against us, while we’ve got the visa lottery, where we literally pluck names out of a hat, in many cases from countries that don’t like us, to bring them here."
Scalise said what the president is proposing is something both parties should be able to get on board with.
"Democrats in Middle America are actually...for this," Scalise said. "You have got to end catch and release. You have got to end these magnets that are forcing people to come here, the breakdowns in the asylum law. That’s gonna be some of the things that I think people are gonna be excited about."
