Wall along parts of the southern border. The plan only deals with Legal Immigration, not the millions of undocumented immigrants living here or the socalled dreamers that came illegally as children. The president s plan will likely face some opposition in congress from members of both parties. Well have the latest from capitol hill, our certain border and the 2020 campaign trail, of course. First, we go to john roberts reporting live at the white house. Explain what you heard from the president that is new. Ed, good afternoon. We knew all of the plan yesterday. The president reiterating it today and pointing out its opinion more than a censuturcen since the last time 20 immigration is system was overhauled. He was envious of the canadian system. He said thats something i want for america. So after months of deliberation, the president unveiled his new plan. It was shift it from family based to skills based and employment based. 12 of people come into the country based on employment or skills. The president wants to increase that to 57 . Familybased immigration is currently 66 . The president wants to cut that in half to 33 . 10 would be based on humanitarian or other needs. A sharp note here, he wants to end the visa lottery program. He talked about a build america visa that would recognize people with professional and specialized vocations and exceptional students. He talked about a point system being adopted that would give people points for age, the youngter better and English Proficiency and offer creating jobs, educational or vocational certifications. The president talked about how he thinks this plan will make america different. Listen here. Today we are presenting a clear contrast. Democrats are proposing open borders, lower wages and frankly lawless chaos. Were proposing an immigration plan that puts the jobs, wages and safety of American Workers first. Too that end, the council of economic advisers yesterday when they briefed fox news, gave us an idea how they believe changing the immigration system could change the American Economy and grow the gdp and increase tax revenues. The average income of the legal immigrant is about 43,000. That income level is 126,000 for people with skill. The average income of legal immigrants would be about 93,000. The council of economic advisers would help grow gdp and increase tax revenue for the treasury department. Whether or not this will fly, democrats have laid out some markers. Well talk about that in a second, ed. Theres also some things that this doesnt include that i know you want to talk about. Ed obviously a lot of important details of whats in the plan. Whats not in it, the president noting Lindsey Graham was there. Hes trying to focus on his own bill that will deal with cracking down on ilLegal Immigration. This bill doesnt have daca in there. The president has talked about a fix for daca, a path for citizenship. They didnt include this in this plan. Theyre trying to rally republican support around this idea of changing the Legal Immigration system, daca may come further on. If you get against a wall with democrats, throw in protections for daca. But right now, its more of a political document than anything. Theyre looking for something for 2020. You heard the president say, if we dont get this through with support from the democrats, we will after the 2020 election after the republicans take back the house and keep the presidency. I dont think the president is trying to get democratic support. Just trying to get something for republicans to rally around. Ed the president talked about his own reelection there, injecting politics for sure. That was after spoker pelosi had lit this plan up a little bit. True. Democrats by and large hate this idea of moving to a meritbased system. Theres some democrats that are looking at the plan with an open mind. Certainly nancy pelosi doesnt even like the way this have being talked about. Listen here. I want to just Say Something about the word that they use, merit. Its a condescending word. Theyre saying family is without merit. Are they saying most of the people that come to the United States in the history of our country are without merit because they dont have an engineering degree . Richard blumenthal said under the new plan, neither his father or President Trumps father would have been allowed in. Proponents will tell you, ed, this country has changed a lot in its makeup in technology, education over the years. And that it is time to change to a meritbased system. Canada does it, new zealand does it, japan does it. The numbers that the president picked fall about in the middle of the percentages of those other countries. This is a plan that the president hopes to get republicans to rally around, use it as an Election Year issue and win back the house and white house. Ed thanks, john roberts. Its one thing to announce plans in washington. Quite another to implement the changes at the border. Lets go there. William la jeunesse is live in california at the busiest land Border Crossing in america. Talk about how this reform plan could play out where you are . Obviously it was the cornerstone of the president s campaign and remember that executive order in january 2017. A lot of the same things were hearing today. Lets talk about the port of entry. He wants number 1 to secure that area, to add more money to it. 20,000 pedestrians, 70,000 vehicles here, a fraction are screened. The president , youve got some trucks going through an xray, drug dogs. The president wants every vehicle screened. Border security. He talked about creating a Permanent Fund for Border Security so you wouldnt have money taken from the pentagon. It would be funded with fees from cargo at the border. Some of the specificness of the Border Patrol has identified 33 points along the 2,000 mile border where they want cameras, sensors. This would include that. Smuggling. He wants to reduce the incentive for smugglers. Repatriating children that come over here back to their home country. Right now under the protection act for children, trafficking victims, he cant do that. He wants to change that. Finally, Asylum Seekers. Too many frivolous claims are crowding out legitimate claims, which are straining hospitals and schools with 65 of the most recent immigrants are families and those families with unaccompanied minors tagging along. He wants to change that. If you have a merit claim, you stay. If you dont, you get deported. He didnt mention the graham bill. That would say, listen, you have to apply for asylum in your home country. You can stay in mexico while that is adjudicated. You cant remain here. If youre in detention here, you have to stay in custody until your claim is adjudicated. Heres what the president had to say moments ago. Americans can have complete and total confidence that under this plan the borders will finally be fully and totally secured. The president talked about the build america visa currently. We have this familybased system. Majority of the top three sending countries are mexico, india and china. If this changes because obviously you have family members currently here and after five years, they can apply to have a spouse, a child, a parent come over after that period. Ive seen figures and some studies say that for one legal worker can result up to 200 migrants related by blood. Thats why the president calls it change migration and put in a point system that john articulated about youth, higher education, job offer. That obvious will put a train here in mexico. Right now suddenly their number 1 sending country, if he shuts that off or changes that, youll have more pressure on the border for people to enter illegally. Mexico has been falling in terms of ilLegal Immigration. Central america is going up. Those are some of the things, that this is a plan, not a bill, so it lacks specifics. A lot of things not mentioned. We havent talked ant e verify. Hes senting out a marker, a first step from the Republican Point of view. Ed no doubt about it. Thanks, william. Lawmakers from both sides weighing on the new proposal. One key republican saying without daca changes, the plan will hit a major road black and what is happening on the 2020 trail coming up. Are you a veteran, own a home, and need money for your family . Newday usa can help. 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They take issue with meritbased immigration. They say not only is the term offensive but its antiamerican. Some republicans say the president s proposal is not a final step but most are saying that they feel like its a step in the right direction. Democrats see it as a sprint in the wrong direction. It means merit in the eyes of donald trump. Its a look into the soul of who donald trump is. He fails to realize how he happens to be here in this country is because his grandfather came here as did my father without education, without speaking english. Its despicable demagoguery. This proposal is missing must haves like dealing with the dreamers and the undocumented that are already here. Republican senator Susan Collins says she wants something done on that as well and wants dreamers can not be excluded from an immigration package. Senator Lindsey Graham suggested that the president is open to working on that. Merit based makes sense. Hes right about that. Hes right about the border being broken. I think hes come to realize to get a deal on immigration, you have to deal with the illegal immigrant population that are here and guest worker programs. Graham went on to say that things are so toxic around capitol hill, hes not sure if democrats will work with the president on immigration. Democrats say theyre not sure in the republicans are welling to work with them. Ed we saw senator there with the president. Talk about the details that are separate from what the president was talking about, Legal Immigration and what senator graham wants to do the crack down on ilLegal Immigration. The senator said he felt like the president s proposal today was not necessarily something that would be a law but more a guide to figure out where and lay out where republicans and the Republican Party stand on meritbased immigration and Border Security. He says he feels his proposal is something that can become a law. The white house disagrees. They think the president s proposal can become a law. And grahams plan and the president s plan can work together. Grahams proposal does a few different things. It requires asylum applications from residents of the northern triangle to be filed at Processing Centers outside of the u. S. They say they will create those centers in mexico and the countries in the northern triangle. And allowed the families to be held together 100 days. It adds 500 new Immigration Judges to deal with processing the asylum claims and allows for quicker deportation of unaccompanied minors. The legislation as is has the president s support. Yes. No doubt about this proposal. The question is will he support compromises that will make this. What compromises . I need to hear from senator durbin and others. Durbin and other democrats say they feel like they cant trust the white house on immigration. They feel like they have made compromises, gotten close in the past and the president moves the goal posts. Ed . 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Parents deciding to pay a coyote to transport their child across the entire country of mexico facing unknown peril because they believe that if that child stays where they are, it will be worse. That is desperation. That is similar to what beto orourke tweeted. A 2yearold child has died, the fourth in our care in six months and the suffering at our border. Treat immigrants and Asylum Seekers like human beings. Focus on the wellbeing of the kids more than any others concerned. Others are campaigning against border walls. We need to be challenging china on developing artificial intelligence, building a cyber wall to protect america. China had that debate 2,000 years ago about building a wall. Since the president s plan is minutes old, we expect the next couple hours to hear from more democrats, ed. You can also guarantee that this field on the democratic side gets bigger and bigger. It does. Protesters were so loud outside mayor bill de blasios Good Morning America interview, which was behind glass, that you can hear their chants over his answers. He seemed to know that that might be coming. The thing about new yorkers is they looked the same where theyre pissed off at you or they like you. The mayor has a long way to go to catch the mayor from south bend who is in third place in the polls. He just talked about that in chicago. [question inaudible] its not like were in first place. So while im thrilled with the fact that were obviously running ahead of a lot of better known competitors, we have gotten favorable attention and were growing stronger with recruiting and finance, doesnt take away from the fact this in is a long road. Bill de blasio is going to iowa and South Carolina and the clock is ticking for him to make a blip in the polls or in popularity with grass roots donors to make next months dnc debates. Ed . Peter doocy, live in washington. Thank you. Lets bring in chad pergram, our senior producer for capitol hill covering all kinds of issues, particularly immigration. Good to see you. Good to be with you, ed. Ed id like you to react from this piece of sound. Democrats said this was about politician. The president said no, its about policy and he adds this. And therefore, some reason, possibly political, we cant get the democrats to approve this meritbased highsecurity plan, then we will get it approved immediately after the election when we take back the house, keep the senate and of course, hold the presidency. Ed so the president seems to be saying deal with me now, chad. Yeah, this is where democrats will be key here. Number 1, they could potentially get on board with a plan if they think that they deal with comprehensive i reform. The other side of the aisle, President Trumps stock and trade is this border wall and Border Security. What the administration is prying to private away from that toxic fight about a wall. We probably have a big brouhaha over funding. If the white house can pivot away from that and talk about immigration and if they can appeal to some democrats, they might get people on board. Keep in mind a lot of moderates in the house. If its moderate enough, it could be a good vote. Theres risk nor the president too, ed. Border security, the ball, anumber 1 for him. If hes interpreted by voters and his base as veering too far to the left or the middle, that is toxic for him. He did that a little bit before and the right beat him up. Ed no doubt about it, a lot of skepticism that democrats would support almost anything the president would put out there and give him any kind of a win before 2020. Lets talk about the republicans and what you just said there about conservatives may be thinking this doesnt go far enough to the