It's the only solution under current law. Tell your congresscritters to get off the resist band wagon and fix it. The fact is they want the issue, NOT A SOLUTION.
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Present a clean bill then.
Describe a clean bill. Will it secure the border, stop chain migration in favor of a merit based system, end the visa lottery or anything else the president wants?
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The Gang of Eight bill that a minority killed ended the visa lottery. Also chain migration is largely a myth. It should be a clean bill.
Bullshit, chain migration is not a myth, it allows anyone with a green card to sponsor family members, regardless of their qualifications to earn a living.
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MYTH NO. 3
One immigrant can bring in many far-flung family members in just a few years.
In his State of the Union address,
Trump claimed, “Under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives.” In reality, America’s immigration laws strictly limit the types and numbers of family-sponsored immigrants. The laws
allow U.S. citizens and legal residents to sponsor only immigrants who are their immediate relatives — spouses, children, siblings and parents — and the spouses and minor children of those immigrants.
Even these categories are strictly controlled. Only parents, spouses and young children of U.S. citizens can enter without a numerical limit. The law places
caps on adult children and siblings of U.S. citizens, as well as spouses and all children of legal residents. The law also prevents any single country from using more than 7 percent of the quota in a given category. In combination, these restrictions can result in significant wait times for certain nationalities. Mexican and Filipino siblings and adult children of U.S. citizens, for example, typically wait more than two decades to immigrate to America.
MYTH NO. 4
Chain immigrants are security and terrorist threats.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) argues that restricting family reunification would “make us safer,”
citing a
failed terrorist attack in New York in which an immigrant, who had come to the United States on a family visa, detonated a bomb on his chest, injuring only himself. Yet from 1975 through 2017, the likelihood of a U.S. resident or citizen being murdered by any person who entered the United States as a legal permanent resident — i.e. not someone who entered on a temporary visa — was just
1 in 1.2 billion per year. Regular murderers were 80,000 times more likely to kill Americans than legal immigrant terrorists.
Legal immigrants to the United States — more than 70 percent of whom
are sponsored by a U.S. family member — are also far less likely to commit crimes generally. Based on
Census Bureau data, U.S.-born adults are three times more likely to be incarcerated than legal immigrants of the same age group. By lowering the crime rate, law-abiding residents make America safer.
MYTH NO. 5
Chain immigrants lack skills to succeed.
In making his case for the president’s proposals last month,
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, “What good does it do to bring in somebody who is illiterate in their own country, has no skills and is going to struggle in our country and not be successful?” This description distorts the picture of immigrants who settle in the United States.
Nearly half of adults in the family-sponsored and diversity visa categories
had a college degree, compared with less than a third of U.S. natives. America would lose nearly a quarter-million college graduates every year without the family-sponsored and diversity programs.
Even among the 11 percent who have little formal education, there is no evidence that they aren’t successful. By
virtually every measure, the least-skilled immigrants prosper in America. Immigrant men without high school degrees are almost as likely as U.S.-born men
with college degreesto look for a job and keep one.
Family-sponsored immigrants are the
most upwardly mobile American workers. Whether high-skilled or not, chain or not, immigrants succeed in and contribute to this country.
Five Myths about Chain Migration