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High up in the points system and compensate by getting a greater mix of immigrants by taking a lot of people that otherwise wouldn't make it on such a system. >> again, our intent was focus on stuff that fair minded people ought to agree about. i am comfortable saying when this is legs latd, a lot of other things like temporary work visas and asylum would be on the table. we thought about those things and some parts of what we put out had some proposals. for asylum, make it a temporary thing. if the country calms down, maybe the person can go home. doesn't necessarily have to be a permanent th...

Publicly it was meant to be a deterrent. you're saying you're on the front lines here, you're not doing any of the separation as a deterrent. you're doing it only under specific circumstances. >> that's correct. >> the president announced a new immigration proposal last week, and one of the key changes here was instituting a points-based system that would favor highly skilled workers over many of the folks, and you and i talked about this last time you came on the program, that most of these migrants or asylum seemers are coming for financial assistance. looking at that, and i know you're a ca...

Today as intelligence officials are expected to meet with the gang of eight, top members of congress to talk this thing through. nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, has warned any war will have to go through the congress. back to you. >> joe, thank you very much. in just hours president trump is set to unveil a new immigration plan from the rose garden. the plan is spear-headed by his son jared kushner and is designed to get republican support and move america toward a merit-based system for immigrants. the measure calls for increased security at ports of entry and more border barriers. ...

Width between now and 2020. >> ed: sounds like a lot of issues piling up. chad pergram, thank you. >> thank you. >> ed: other countries that use merit-based immigration systems and we may be able to learn some lessons from what they did right, what they did wrong. trace gallagher is tracking all of that from the west coast news hub. good to see you, trace. >> good to see you, ed. immigration based on employment and skill has been around since the 60s. canada was the first to adopt it. other countries like australia, new zealand, austria, denmark, germany, the u.k., hong kong, japan and south k...

Merit-based. they want a points system so you bring more high skilled immigrant workers into the country. there's a sive vicks test, an english language test. fundamentally there's attempt to change the conversation at the mouse to talk about how they can be pro immigration at least on the high skilled part. a lot this plan doesn't do. it doesn't make much of a nod to the political reality. that is you'll need to get democrats, even republicans on board. in some ways it's a test on whether or not the president can continue to shape the republican party in his own mold or whether or not they'll...