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Painted it. seems like hes kind of addressing this in the best way he can, you know, purely for political purposes. >> lets take a listen to how a couple of house democrats have reacted. >> there should be comprehensive immigration reform and not immigration reform that is based on exciting and inciting those people who have negative thoughts about others coming across our boards. i think some of that is very racist. its not keeping with what this country is supposed to be all about. >> the word...

Word. are they saying family is without merit? are they saying most of the people that have ever come to the united states in the history of our country are without merit because they dont have an engineering degree? certainly we want to attract the best in our country -- to our country and that includes many people from many parts of society. >> tucker: what a shame we cant staff the democratic caucus in the congress using the same criteria the speaker would like to fill our country. we want to...

Because they dont have an engineering degree? >> you know, this business about you must speak english well give you points for speaking english and we dont want poor people. we only want those people who are earning substantial wages already. all of those things are not keeping in-step with the way that we treat human beings. some of those policies are racist. neil: you know, the policy whatever you think of the president, does not say anything about we dont want poor people or were racist if yo...

Word. are they saying family is without merit? are they saying most of the people thatin have ever come to the united states in the history of our country are without merit because they dont have an engineering degree? certainly we want to attract the best in our country -- to our country and that includes many people from many parts of society. >> tucker: what a shame we cant staff the democratic caucus in the congress using the same criteria the speaker would like to fill our country. we want ...

People that would come to the united states in the history of our country are without merit because they dont have an engineering degree? >> youve heard republican criticism as well. you heard congressman will herd a bit earlier from morning joe. what audience is the president targeting with his plan? >> like we say with a lot of things the president is targeting his base. to go back for a second on the issue of comprehensive immigration reform, this has been something thats been one of the mo...

So, a major update -- and thats what this is, a merit system and a heart system -- is long overdue. >> lisa: that was president trump unveiling his immigration overall plan yesterday. democrats calling the plan a nonstarter. congresswoman omar sang the u.s. should abolish ice instead. house speaker nancy pelosi criticizing the language of the proposal. listen to this. >> they are seeing families about merit? that most people come to united states in history of our country are without merit? beca...

Come back and do it when i take back -- when republicans take back the house and senate. so i think hes treating it as one. his campaign is treating it as one. its really telling they didnt even really speak to democrats beforehand. >> yeah, even the republicans they spoke to werent too pleased. >> right. we didnt hear a lot from republicans yesterday. we didnt hear a lot of people saying how much they loved it. >> yeah. >> it is a very traditional republican standpoint. changed to merit-based i...

Without merit? are they saying most of the people that have ever come to the united states in the history of our country are without merit because they dont have an engineering degree? let me just say this we have never not said there is a crisis. there is a humanitarian crisis at the border and some of it provoked by out actions taken by the administration. ainsley: did i hear her right? brian: exactly. she has never said there was a crisis at the border. ainsley: she has always called it a cri...

Change we make is to increase the proportion of highly skilled immigration from 12% to 57%, and wed like to even see if we can go higher. this will bring us in line with other countries, and make us globally competitive. >> laura: in other words, a merit-based system is what the white house wants to create. kind of makes sense, doesnt it? versus what we have now. well, it doesnt make sense to nancy. >> i want to just say something about the word that they use merit. it is really a con descending...

>> president trump: the biggest change we make is to increase the proportion of highly skilled immigration from 12% to 57%, and wed like to even see if we can go higher. this will bring us in line with other countries, and make us globally competitive. >> laura: in other words, a merit-based system is what the white house wants to create. kind of makes sense, doesnt it? versus what we have now. well, it doesnt make sense to nancy. >> i want to just say something about the word that they use, mer...