The Coming Battle Over Legal Immigration
Some Republicans want fewer immigrants of any stripe.
With so many other confrontations over immigration already raging, it was easy to overlook that new skirmish that Republican Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia started last week.
Just weeks into office, President Trump is embroiled in legal and political struggles over his contested travel ban on seven Muslim-majority nations his administration finalized this week. Cotton and Perdue opened a new front in these escalating immigration wars by proposing that would cut in half the number of legal immigrants and refugees allowed into the U.S. from today’s combined level of
