Trump's cruel quest to rid America of foreign-born workers

They are America's most valuable immigrants. And our president seems intent on making their lives uncertain and miserable.

Chinese-Americans.
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President Trump insists that the changes to immigration law he's proposing in exchange for protecting DREAMers — a nickname for those illegally brought to America as children — would make our country's immigration system, like Canada's, more merit-based.

That would be awesome if it were true. Unfortunately, it is a complete lie. In fact, it is like saying that kneecapping someone would make them a better sprinter.

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Shikha Dalmia

Shikha Dalmia is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University studying the rise of populist authoritarianism.  She is a Bloomberg View contributor and a columnist at the Washington Examiner, and she also writes regularly for The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. She considers herself to be a progressive libertarian and an agnostic with Buddhist longings and a Sufi soul.