How many of them were illegal immigrants? Can't read the article because it's behind a paywall for me.
To remind, until 1950s or so, it was basically impossible to legally get US citizenship if you weren't white.
Unauthorized immigrants face the most immediate danger due to the law but the Trump administration is hostile to legal immigration as well. They're seeking to decrease legal immigration and considerimg an executive order to deport legal immigrants for using welfare.
They are trying to ban by executive order legal immigration from arbitrary Muslim majority countries and all refugees (possibly temporarily but I expect them to try to extend it).
Steve Bannon sees the number of asian CEOs (which he greatly overestimates) as a bad thing.
Arbitrary? This is blatantly false and disingenuous.
There are some 50 majority muslim countries and these were not pulled out of a hat.