Asian American Activists Call White House Immigration Paper ‘Anti-Family’:
Newly leaked White House immigration draft could be as devastating as the Chinese Exclusion Act, according to Asian American community leaders
New America Media, News Report, Eugenia Chien, Posted: Apr 06, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO -- Asian American community leaders called a newly leaked White House immigration draft “inhumane” and “un-American” because it calls taking away the right of legal immigrants to sponsor their relatives to join them and breaking up families as a result.
The document containing “a set of principles” for immigration reform drafted by key Republican Congressional representatives was circulated in Washington last week. The plan creates temporary visas for undocumented immigrants and new workers, but it also puts more limits on American citizens’ ability to bring their parents, children over age 21 and siblings to the United States.
“This plan attacks families and offers false hope for those seeking to legalize,” says to Karen K. Narasaki, executive director of the Washington-based Asian American Justice Center. "
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