Family Connections: Trump and Merit-Based Immigration

family connections: Sounds nice, but it's not nice, said Trump, making a case for merit-based immigration and the elimination of chain migration, where arrivals enter through family connections in the U.S. Trump made his comments to reporters in a freewheeling address prior to a meeting with his cabinet at the White House, according to CBC. Trump earlier in the day on Twitter said that the driver in Tuesday's attack came into our country through what is called the 'Diversity Visa Lottery Program,' a Chuck Schumer beauty a reference to the Senate's top Democrat. Trump said he will ask Congress to eliminate the country's diversity visa program. New York attack was weeks in the planning, authorities say Details emerge on NYC attack suspect Sayfullo Saipov Schumer fired back from the Senate floor, accusing Trump of politicizing the tragedy. Sanders told reporters the president has not blamed the New York Democrat and doesn't feel that the senator is responsible for the attack. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that Trump's calls for increasing extreme vetting of immigrants are something that, frankly, the president has been talking about for a long time. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.