Kevin Johnson – University of California, Davis, United States
The RAISE Act would drastically reshape American immigration. It will also likely have the unintended consequence of increasing undocumented immigration.
Approximately one million immigrants are granted lawful permanent residence in the U.S. every year.
The RAISE Act would cut annual legal immigrant admissions by one-half, primarily by eliminating family-sponsored immigration visas for those who are not spouses or minor children of U.S. citizens and permanent residents. This would reduce the total number of family-sponsored green cards from 226,000 to 88,000. Cuts to family-based immigration would primarily affect prospective immigrants from Mexico, China, India, the Philippines and Cuba.
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