AP Analysis: Moving to make immigration whiter, wealthier
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August 15, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is on a course to remake the face of immigration in America in ways that would turn it whiter and wealthier.
It is a dramatic editing of the American catechism welcoming "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses , yearning to breathe free," inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, to "your tired and your poor who can stand on their on their own two feet and will not become a public charge."
The administration official who offered that rewrite, Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, affirmed on Wednesday that his wor...
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