Lost amidst the controversy regarding the separation of families at the border and calls to abolish ICE are the earlier promises by President Trump to shift towards merit-based rather than family-based immigration.

For many people, merit-based immigration is most closely associated with the polemic H1-B visa program.There is another proven job creating merit-based program, however, that’s received little attention of late, save an embarrassing and possibly misunderstood spate of negative attention back in May 2017, when Jared Kushner’s sister, Nicole Meyer, reportedly was heard to be making promises she couldn’t (or shouldn’t) keep to investors in China, according to the New York Times and other published reports.