Why not Discriminatory Immigration

Unless one has been asleep at the wheel, they are aware that the mainstream media has had many a field day reporting on President Trump’s alleged use of socially offensive language as it pertains to Immigrants (legal or otherwise). Has not the stir over rough linguistics reinforced the point Trump was making? Why should we not be more discriminatory about the émigrés and others we allow to enter America? 

Whether or not Trump used disparaging words to describe impoverished countries, which have been plagued by political systems that do not reward hard work, Trump is right that most of the people living there are not prepared to immigrate here without imposing a burden on Americans. Most of the people in the rest of the world just don’t have the skills to support themselves in our high-tech society. Too many Americans have been misled by the sentimental myth that our immigration policy is based on "...give me your tired, your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” 

Did not Donald Trump, on the day he declared he was running for president, vow to change the way our immigrants are selected and screened? His point, then and now, is that we’re not selecting the best candidates for immigration from among the much larger number of people who do not share our values. As I and anyone with a brain to think with knows that generally, immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti, most African nations and more than a few predominately Islamic nations have the least education. Furthermore, most are functionally illiterate in our language and live in households that depend on at least one or multiple welfare program(s). Here's a unique idea: Why not raise American workers salaries, house and feed our own homeless, and improve our veterans care and compensation, instead of bringing more of someone else's tired, poor and wretched refuse?