Immigration
DOA: White House readies immigration plan amid uproar over Trump’s ‘go back’ remarks
Trump is losing the country on immigration
RAISE Act Policies Will not Lift Up America
Trumps new immigration plan is so narrowly written even a Nobel Prize winner would have trouble coming here
Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Louisiana unveiled the RAISE Act, last week which aims to cut the flow of legal immigrants to the United States in half over a decade. Most coverage of the bill has highlighted the massive cuts to family-based immigration. In contrast, I was struck by how the new points system was structured to massively cut legal immigration through the employment-based system. The standards are so high, the bill might be better called the Raise the Drawbridge Act.
The RAISE Act Falls Short
On August 2, 2017, Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue, with the support of President Trump, introduced the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act (RAISE Act), which seeks to substantially reform the current U.S. immigration system and replace it with a merits based system that ignores the benefits of family unity and the needs of U.S. employers.