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The MAIN thing is immigration. Finland, Sweden, Norway, Singapore are all very socialist. Free college, pre - K, healthcare and in some cases consider themselves " welfare states. " That said, they all are wealthy nations with low obesity rates, low crime , low poverty etc. They have a STRICT immigration system.
If Trump was going to make any meaningful changes to immigration, he would have to change the filibuster rules so that immigration reform could get passed with just 50 votes. He would need 50 votes +1 (or the VP vote) to do that. He had 52 senate seats in 2017. All he had to do was get 50 republicans to vote for reforming the filibuster, + the VP vote and done. He could have passed a merit based immigration system, got rid of chain based migration, set limits on the number of immigrants etc. Instead he tried to get rid of Obamacare (failed) and passed tax cuts(which are good but will expire) and focused on Twitter wars with random people.
He had the opportunity to completely reform immigration, but choose not to. Also, if a merit based immigration system passed, a democrat would likely not end it because it works better and Biden had only 50 senate democrats when he came in (meaning 1 no vote and he would not be able to pass immigration reform)
People pretend like he is some sort of god. He never even accomplished him main goal, which is to decrease third world immigration.
If Trump was going to make any meaningful changes to immigration, he would have to change the filibuster rules so that immigration reform could get passed with just 50 votes. He would need 50 votes +1 (or the VP vote) to do that. He had 52 senate seats in 2017. All he had to do was get 50 republicans to vote for reforming the filibuster, + the VP vote and done. He could have passed a merit based immigration system, got rid of chain based migration, set limits on the number of immigrants etc. Instead he tried to get rid of Obamacare (failed) and passed tax cuts(which are good but will expire) and focused on Twitter wars with random people.
He had the opportunity to completely reform immigration, but choose not to. Also, if a merit based immigration system passed, a democrat would likely not end it because it works better and Biden had only 50 senate democrats when he came in (meaning 1 no vote and he would not be able to pass immigration reform)
People pretend like he is some sort of god. He never even accomplished him main goal, which is to decrease third world immigration.