Trump-backed bill to cut immigration by half worries tech groups, angers civil rights advocates
Trump-backed bill to cut immigration by half worries tech groups, angers civil rights advocates
- August 3, 2017
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and poli sci, via KPCC, Aug. 3, 2017
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Louis DeSipio, professor of political science and Chicano/Latino studies at University of California, Irvine, said it’s not just Democrats who may oppose the bill. “Also the business group is going to oppose it because they’ve been complaining, like the Chamber of Commerce is complaining, that they’re not able to find the workers they need and immigrants are filling in many of those jobs," he said.
For the full story, please visit http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/08/03/74333/trump-backed-bill-to-cut-immigration-by-half-worri/.
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