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ADVOCATES CALL TRUMP LEGAL IMMIGRATION PROPOSAL RACIST, INHUMANE in would be sla shed, including those f rom countr ies where the Un i t e d S t a t e s i s a t w a r.
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Tr u m p h a s s a i d t h e b i l l w o u l d protec t A mer ican jobs and lessen the welfare burden. Sala s noted that Califor nia , w ith its b o o m i n g e c o n o m y, a b s o r b s m o r e lega l immig ra nt s tha n a ny other s t a t e - a l m o s t 2 1 0 , 0 0 0 i n 2 01 5 .
L OS A NGEL ES -- Immig ra ntr ight s g roups are c a lling P r e s i d e n t Tr u m p' s p r o p o s a l t o cut lega l immig rat ion by ha lf racist and mean-spir ited. O n We d n e s d a y A u g u s t 2 n d , t h e president endorsed the R efor m ing A mer ic a n Immig rat ion for a Strong Economy Ac t , or R A ISE Ac t , which would favor Englishspea k ing, high-sk ill immig ra nt s and limit the abilit y of A mer ican citizens and legal per manent residents to br ing cer tain relatives - such a s parents, siblings and g randparent s - to t h e U. S . A ngelic a Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Hu m a n e I m m i g r a n t R i g h t s L o s A ngeles, c a lled the proposa l i n hu ma ne.
Almost 133,000 parents of U.S. citizens immigrated legally to the United States in 2015. A bill endorsed by President Trump would limit those numbers. Photo Credit: Pixabay
" Fa m i l i e s h a v e a l w a y s m a d e o u r c o u n t r y s t r o n g ," S a l a s s a i d . "A n d I'm appa lled that R epublic a ns, who say that they're the pa r t y of family va lues, are destroy ing the family unit y system in the i m m i g r a t i o n l a w."
The R A ISE Act also would eliminate the g reen card lot ter y diversit y prog ram that br ings in mig ra nt s f rom under represented countr ies, mostly in A f r ica and A s i a . We a l t h y i n v e s t o r s s t i l l would be g ranted v isa s, but the nu mber of ref ugee s a l lowed
"Immig ra nt s a nd their child ren ma ke up ha lf of the population of Califor nia , and we are the si x th l a r g e s t e c o n o m y o f t h e w o r l d ," she said. "So if we are thr iv ing, it's because of immig ra nt fa milies, immig ra nt labor a nd immig ra nt contr ibut ion, a nd i m m i g r a n t k n o w - h o w." Fe d e r a l s t a t i s t i c s s h o w t h a t more than 1 million people i m m i g r a t e d t o t h e U. S . l e g a l l y i n 2 01 5 , w h i c h i s h i g h e r t h a n the year before, but lower than i n 2 0 0 5 a n d 2 0 01 .
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