Claim: "Only 12% of legal immigrants are selected based on skill or based on merit. In countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and others, that number is closer to 60, and even 70 and 75% in some cases."
Fact-check: Trump says US lags Canada, others on job-based migration
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Miriam Valverde
Date published: 2019-05-24T00:00:00