ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Statement on Trump Administration Executive Order Expanding Immigration Restrictions
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center issued the following statement by Meredith Stewart, senior supervising attorney with the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½â€™s Immigrant Justice Project, regarding the Trump administration's executive order expanding immigration restrictions to include the suspension of some work visas.
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“It is not a coincidence that the Trump Administration turns to its anti-immigrant agenda in challenging times. This latest order does nothing to address the challenges all workers face as a result of COVID-19. Instead, it demonizes immigrant workers who are too often exploited and abused by unscrupulous employers.Ìý
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“Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, white nationalists and other anti-immigrant extremists pushed for this proposal. White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller himself, advocated for similar restrictions on immigrant workers in a series of emails to Breitbart News in which he also shared white nationalist propaganda.
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“Rather than using the current crisis to promote its anti-immigrant agenda, theÌý
White House should be ensuring workers’ safety and reforming guest worker programs to end abuse and exploitation."
