Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses today in the first and second panels.
It seems to me that there are certain respects in which our immigration system discriminates on the basis of income quite transparently. In fact, it's by design, where people who don't have enough money to pay for their needs while they're here as a student might not be able to come. It seems that the assessments they make about whether someone's likely to return home are also based on income.
I'd like to hear the witnesses share a bit about how we can disaggregate discrimination on the basis of income and discrimination on the basis of race. In some of the country comparisons we're doing, there are differences of race and religion, but there are also differences of income level. It might be more useful to look at comparisons between countries of similar cultural, racial or religious makeup, but with significant differences in income, and see how those played out.
I'd be curious for any of the witnesses to comment on this. How can we disaggregate questions of discrimination on the basis of income from discrimination on the basis of race or religion?