Attorney General Jeff Sessions argued Friday that after decades of broken immigration policies, it’s time to fix a U.S. system that currently doesn’t judge the merit of the people it allows in.

“The American people have known for more than 30 years that our immigration system is broken. It’s intentionally designed to be blind to merit. That’s a feature, not a bug,” Sessions said in a Friday afternoon speech. “It doesn’t favor education or skills. It just favors anybody who has a relative in America — and not necessarily a close relative.”