logo
    • Magazine
    • Membership
    • Donate
  • Racial Justice
  • Economic Justice
    • Collections
  • Climate Justice
  • Health Justice
  • Leadership
  • CONTENT TYPES
  • Subscribe
  • Webinars
    • Upcoming Webinars
    • Complimentary Webinars
    • Premium On-Demand Webinars
  • Membership
  • Submissions

API Leaders Call New Immigration Bill “Ethnic Cleansing”

Cyndi Suarez
August 11, 2017
Share
Tweet
Share
Email
Print
Pixabay. Public domain. [CC 0]

August 9, 2017; New America Media and Washington Examiner

The U.S. allows about one million legal immigrants each year. On August 2nd, Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) unveiled a bill that, if passed, would halve the number of legal immigrants over the next decade, eliminate family reunification and diversity visas, and limit refugees.

“So much for the talking point that immigration hawks are ‘only against illegal immigration,’” wrote Alex Nowrasteh of the conservative Cato Institute.

Though proponents claim the bill would increase “skill-based immigration,” Nowrasteh wrote that “nothing could be further from the truth.” In fact, “the new Cotton-Perdue bill will only increase the proportion of employment-based green cards by cutting other green cards. Saying otherwise is grossly deceptive marketing.”

Sign up for our free newsletters

Subscribe to NPQ's newsletters to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox.

By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from NPQ and our partners.

In February, GOP Senators proposed the RAISE Act (Reforming American immigration for a Strong Economy) with very similar provisions, but the bill stalled in the Senate. It purported to “raise the wages of native-born American workers by reducing the supply of lower-skilled immigrants.” But there is evidence that there is not a direct correlation between limiting immigration and increasing wages. For example, a study of the 1964 cancellation of the Bracero program, a guest worker program that allowed Mexican farmers to work on American farms, found that “the farmers did not adapt to the decline in legal migrants by raising wages. Instead, they mechanized and planted less labor-intensive crops.”

Asian American leaders in San Francisco condemned the new bill this week. They compared it to the plan to challenge affirmative action in higher education announced last week, and see both as part of a white nationalist “ethnic cleansing agenda.”

Dean Ito Taylor, executive director of Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, told New America Media, “It’s almost like they sat around and said, ‘How can we [get rid of] all these Asians and Latinos coming to the country?’”

Readers may remember that in late July, during Trump’s own “Made in America” week, the President not only dismissed criticism of his own companies’ foreign-made goods, his Mar-a-Lago Club and golf course in Florida filed H-2B visas to bring foreign workers for positions they claimed could not be filled by U.S. workers—15 housekeepers, 20 cooks, and 35 servers.—Cyndi Suarez

Share
Tweet
Share
Email
Print
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cyndi Suarez

Cyndi Suarez is president and editor-in-chief of NPQ (Nonprofit Quarterly). She is author of The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamics, in which she outlines a new theory and practice of liberatory power. Suarez has worked as a strategy and innovation consultant with a focus on networks and platforms for social movements. She has 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector—in community-based, advocacy, organizing, consulting, infrastructure, and philanthropic organizations. She is passionate about elegant design and designing for power. Her studies were in feminist theory and organizational development for social change.

More about: ImmigrationLegislationNonprofit NewsPolicy

Become a member

Support independent journalism and knowledge creation for civil society. Become a member of Nonprofit Quarterly.

Members receive unlimited access to our archived and upcoming digital content. NPQ is the leading journal in the nonprofit sector written by social change experts. Gain access to our exclusive library of online courses led by thought leaders and educators providing contextualized information to help nonprofit practitioners make sense of changing conditions and improve infra-structure in their organizations.

Join Today
logo logo logo logo logo
See comments

NPQ_Winter_2022Subscribe Today
You might also like
Cancelling Student Debt Is Necessary for Racial Justice
Kitana Ananda
To Save Legal Aid, Expand Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Zoë Polk
No Justice, No Peace of Mind and Body: The Health Impacts of Housing Insecurity for Black Women
Jhumpa Bhattacharya, Maile Chand and Andrea Flynn
The Human Impact of the Global Refugee Crisis Must Be Understood—And Acted Upon
Anmol Irfan
Black Americans Need Reparations: The Fight for the CTC Highlights the Roadblocks
Jhumpa Bhattacharya and Trevor Smith
The Police Groups and Fossil Fuel Corporations Lobbying to Criminalize Protest
Connor Gibson

Popular Webinars

Remaking the Economy

Black Food Sovereignty, Community Stories

Register Now

Combating Disinformation and Misinformation in 21st-Century Social Movements

Register Now

Remaking the Economy

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

Register Now
You might also like
Cancelling Student Debt Is Necessary for Racial Justice
Kitana Ananda
To Save Legal Aid, Expand Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Zoë Polk
No Justice, No Peace of Mind and Body: The Health Impacts of...
Jhumpa Bhattacharya, Maile Chand and Andrea Flynn

Like what you see?

Subscribe to the NPQ newsletter to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox.

See our newsletters

By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from NPQ and our partners.

Independent & in your mailbox.

Subscribe today and get a full year of NPQ for just $59.

subscribe
  • About
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Copyright
  • Careers

We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website.

 

Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.