Council on Foreign Relations: on Immigration

Mike Bloomberg: Fix the country's broken immigration system

He is opposed to Trump's proposals for expanding the border wall with Mexico and he criticized Trump for using a government shutdown as leverage to try to win funding for the wall.

He has condemned Trump's border policies, especially the "shameful" separation of families and the detention of children. "That is not who we are as a nation," he says.

He supports the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to undocumented residents who were brought to the country as children, and opposes Trump's attempts to end the Barack Obama-era program to halt their deportation, Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

Mike Bloomberg: Closing the door to immigration would be national suicide

He said he backs an immigration compromise that would combine better border security, which he calls "critically important," with a pathway to permanent legal status for the United States' estimated eleven million undocumented residents.

He favors allowing foreign students who graduate from U.S. universities to stay in the United States, as well as offering visas to foreign entrepreneurs. He wants to end the cap on H1B visas for high-skilled immigrants and is in favor of expanding visas for low-skill labor.

Nikki Haley: Refugee ban: What we did was take a pause

HALEY: I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. I believe that the fabric of America is legal immigration. This is not about not wanting people in. This is about keeping the terrorists out. We should never ban based on religion, I mean, period. We should never. And I don't think that's what this is. We will never close our doors in the United States. We won't. But what we did do was take a pause.