It sets up a new point system that would be applied to a growing proportion of future immigrants.
"You're asking future immigrants to pay for the agency's failings of the last decade."
It prohibits future legal immigrants from collecting most types of Federal welfare benefits during their first five years in the country.
It has already stirred passions because it would profoundly change the criteria for picking future immigrants.
It is difficult to forecast the impact of the proposed changes on the mix and number of future immigrants, experts say.
Britain proposed today that future immigrants would have to demonstrate language skills and knowledge of British values to obtain citizenship.
Two-thirds of Americans in the survey favored creating a guest-worker program for future immigrants.
And as harsh as the law will be for future immigrants, they say, it is particularly devastating for those already here.
The House bill would strip Medicaid coverage from current and future legal immigrants.
In Italy, Albanians are first of all future immigrants.
