Still talking tough, Trump touts immigration compromise

President Donald Trump suggested a new merit-based system to regulate entry to the United States, as he tried to square his hardline campaign rhetoric with the goal of broad immigration reform. Arguing that mass immigration by unskilled workers costs the US taxpayer billions of dollars and depresses the wages and job opportunities of the working poor, Trump urged lawmakers to get behind reform. "It is a basic principle that those seeking to enter a country ought to be able to support themselves financially," Trump told lawmakers.