{"id":537,"date":"2021-04-24T03:21:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T07:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/?page_id=537"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:14","slug":"the-fairness-for-high-skilled-immigrants-act-the-first-step-to-comprehensive-immigration-reform","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/in-print\/volume-35-number-1-fall-2020\/the-fairness-for-high-skilled-immigrants-act-the-first-step-to-comprehensive-immigration-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act: The First Step to Comprehensive Immigration Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>As President Donald Trump ran for the 2016 Republican nomination, he embraced largely anti-immigrant rhetoric while also seeming to endorse legal and skilled immigration. Trump always qualified his statements favorably for both legal and skilled immigration; he said at a 2015 Oklahoma rally, \u201cI want legal immigration. I want great people to come in.\u201d As president, Trump endorsed skilled immigration with a new merit immigration proposal unveiled in 2019, which adopts a \u201cpoints system\u201d that rewards well-educated immigrants from \u201cspecialized vocations.\u201d Other Republicans have supported his call for more high-skilled immigration, including Senators Kevin Cramer of North Dakota and Mike Lee of Utah.<\/p>\n<p>The American people also agree with Trump\u2019s statements. Around eighty percent of Americans favor more high-skilled immigration, a figure that far outnumbers the twenty-four percent of Americans who want more overall immigration, per a 2019 poll. In turn, Congress has responded with the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act (\u201cthe Act\u201d), a bill introduced every session since Lee joined the Senate in 2011. The Act would raise per-country caps on family immigration while getting rid of per-country caps entirely for employment, clearing the visa backlog for large countries like India and China.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2021\/04\/06-The-Fairness-for-High-Skilled-Immigrants-Act-The-First-Step-to-Comprehensive-Immigration-Reform.pdf\">The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act: The First Step to Comprehensive Immigration Reform<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Donald Trump ran for the 2016 Republican nomination, he embraced largely anti-immigrant rhetoric while also seeming to endorse legal and skilled immigration. Trump always qualified his statements favorably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"parent":505,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-537","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/537\/revisions\/540"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}