Civil Rights,
Government,
Immigration
Aug. 16, 2017
Immigration act is really an exclusion act
Trump’s call for overhauling the legal immigration system suffers from serious flaws.
Bill Ong Hing
Professor of Law and Migration Studies
University of San Francisco
Email: bhing@usfca.edu
Bill is also the founder and general counsel of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
President Donald Trump’s recent call for overhauling the legal immigration system suffers from serious racial implications and violations of basic family values. Earlier this month he endorsed the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act, which would eliminate all family reunification categories beyond spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (reducing the age limit for minor children from 21 to 18), and would l...
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