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Attorney General Jeff Sessions called for the implementation of a merit-based immigration system endorsed by President Trump, saying the American people “would be safer” than they are currently under the mass, family-based chain migration system.
During a speech in New York City, New York, Sessions called on the GOP-led Congress to pass the RAISE Act, legislation by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Sen. (R-GA) that would cut legal immigration levels in half to give relief to America’s working and middle class.
Among other things, the RAISE Act would also end the Diversity Visa Lottery, the program that allowed Uzbek…