On the other side of the aisle, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called Trump’s offering a “dead-on-arrival plan that is not a remotely serious proposal.” And Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) slammed it as a “despicable abdication of moral authority” that would have kept Blumenthal’s own immigrant father from entering the United States.
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Democrats on Thursday also took issue with the White House’s characterization of the kind of immigrants who bring “merit” to the United States.
“It is really a condescending word,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference on Thursday morning. “Are they saying family is without merit?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAISE_Act#Full_details_of_the_...
The goal of the RAISE Act was to substantially reduce family-based immigration while not increasing employment-based immigration to compensate for that.
I didn't realize Trump had his own plan (that was never going to be law anyway). But based on what I actually personally experienced Trump actually do, my Bayesian prior for it being helpful to immigrants is extraordinarily low.
The second link you posted lists a large number of anti-immigrant ideas that Trump had. That was the general tenor of his administration as I personally experienced it: rhetoric about unauthorized immigration, actions against legal immigrants.
(I used to be on an H1B and got my green card last year.)