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 after a man drove a rental truck onto a bike path in lower Manhattan. 


The man charged with committing the attack, 

, has been living in the U.S. since 2010 as a legal permanent resident. He was able to obtain his green card through a program called the 


MPR News senior producer Stephanie Curtis asked 

 if this change would make America safer. Legomsky served as former chief counsel of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for the Department of Homeland Security.

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President Trump tweeted that he is "fighting hard" for a merit based immigration program. Would that shift make America safer?

After an attack in New York earlier this week, President Trump tweeted that they are working on an immigration system based on merit. Guest host Stephanie Curtis asked Stephen Legomsky, formerly of the Immigration Services Department of Homeland Security, if that would make America safer.

Would a merit-based visa system make the U.S. safer?

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