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Trump Trots Out Canada's Obsolete Immigration Policy For America
Trump Trots Out Canada's Obsolete Immigration Policy For America
It was the mother of all presidential bait-and-switches. The advance billing before President Trump's address to Congress last night was that he was going to pivot on immigration and call for a bipartisan reform bill that offered a path to full blown citizenship for Dreamers (undocumented aliens who were brought to the US as minors) and legalization for undocumented non-Dreamers in exchange for his enforcement crackdown.
The article isn't really about Trump, so much as immigration policy in general. It examines the flaws in Canada's old point-based immigration system and touts the benefits of its new Provincial Nominee Program, which decentralizes the immigration process so that each province can choose immigrants to fit its local needs.



