LEGAL immigrants are going to have no problem with this legislation. I once assisted a Japanese national in a former life in getting his documents in order to spend a year in the U.S. where the salary was paid by the home country. The visa issuance was a bit of a pain, but the social security number was very quick once the visa was in order. In other words, the State Department in Tokyo did their job whereas those in Saudi Arabia weren't bright enough to stop Mohammed Atta and even issued him a visa post 9-11.
The only possible cries of racism will come from the illegal alien and terrorist lobbies which, by most counts, are one and the same.