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The States Should Decide Who Gets a Visa

• https://fee.org, Alex Nowrasteh

The good news for the president, then, is that there's a bill he could get behind to create just such a system. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) introduced a new bill earlier this month, S.1040, co-authored by Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) and co-sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), also known as the "State Sponsored Visa Pilot Program Act of 2017." Their bill adopts a major component of the Canadian immigration system – visas sponsored by individual states, rather than the federal government.

This bill would create a federal economic visa that states get to regulate. The federal government stays in charge of admissions and security checks, while the state identifies the migrant and regulates their activity within its own state. 


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