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Canada Should Be Trump's Model for Immigration Reform
The country focuses on educated foreign workers who can assimilate, start businesses and work in high-skill jobs.
A template for America.
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The U.S. immigration system needs reform, and President-elect Donald Trump might be just the man to do it.
Although research shows that low-skilled immigration -- agricultural laborers, janitors, construction workers and the like -- isn't that bad for working-class Americans, it’s now clear that very few Americans are going to listen to what the research says. Working-class people want less competition, and Trump seems to support that demand. Libertarians who hope for open borders have decisively lost the fight.