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Perspective in the immigration system, how it works or how it didn't work in this case, and what are the sorts of things that our administration is proposing to change to make it better. so as you all know, yesterday the suspect akayed ullah was arrested in an attempted bombing in new york city. there is an immigration aspect to this. the aspect is that he was a green cardholder, lawful permanent resident. he came to this country based on a family connection to a u.s. citizen. he was a national bangladesh. the u.s. citizen in question was his uncle. and that u.s. citizen many years ago came to...

Family member who was a citizen here, and you hear trump talk about the chain immigration. that is what he is talking about. and he alluded to it today in his comments. >> and there are reports that akayed ullah wanted to specifically attack new york during the holiday season. >> yeah, a senior law enforcement official tells nbc news that he was inspired by the call for threats during the christmas season. attacks during the christmas season. that official went further and said that there was actually a particular spot in the tunnel that he had stopped at -- i have to say i was in that tunnel ...

Fourth category is brothers and sisters of u.s. citizens and their children. that's the category that yesterday's suspect came in under. so the suspect in yesterday's bombing came in under the most extreme remote possible family based connection that you can have under current u.s. immigration law. that being the child of the sibling of a u.s. citizen. under the employment based categories, that's a much smaller number, only 140,000 slots are allocated in a year to that category but really getting half that amount. there you have a number of categories including categories for extraordinary ab...

Rick leventhal with more. hi, rick. >> we've seen the criminal complaint. in it, authorities say the suspect akayed ullah admitted to building the pipe bomb and detonating it intentionally. law enforcement sources said he gathered the pieces from job sites where he was an electrician. he used christmas tree lights, wires and a 9 volt battery for detonation and zip ties to attach it to his body. the complaint says that ullah's radicalization began three years ago in 2014 when he used pro isis materials online. that was three years after he came to the united states. benefit of the family immigr...

Outside the u.s. >> the president is exactly right to call attention to these issues and to how they affect our security. in just the last two months, we've seen two terrorist attacks in new york city. carried out by men who are here as a result of failed immigration policy. the diversity lottery, which makes no sense and has never made a sense. >> according to documents released earlier today, law enforcement says the new york terrorist suspect akayed ullah was inspired to carry out the attack for the islamic state and on facebook said that the president has failed to protect the country. imm...