Numerical estimates of how Trump plan would shape immigration

As the US Administration presses for the most extensive revision to immigration law since 1965, with the largest cuts to legal immigration since 1924 in the proposed “Securing America’s Future Act,” a new Center for Global Development (CGD) analysis quantifies for the first time how the proposed cuts would affect the ethnic, religious, and educational composition of immigration flows.

• Hispanic and black immigrants would be roughly twice as likely to be barred by the immigration cuts as white immigrants;
• the cuts would bar the majority of Muslim and Catholic immigrants; and
• the cuts would substantially reduce the number of university-graduate immigrants, and would reduce average years of education among immigrants overall.

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