[ April 20, 2024 ]
President Trump has said: “Chain migration is a disaster for this country and it’s horrible.”
He is right, and the jihad attack in Times Square shows that. The devout Muslim homicide bomber Akayed Ullah came to this country via chain migration — unsurprisingly, he came during the Obama administration. It is certain that when he entered this country, Obama officials made no attempt to determine whether he held jihadist sentiments. Nor was any attention paid to him once he got here, to see if he had fallen in with jihadi preachers and groups. The responsibility for his attack in Times Square lies entirely with Barack Obama and the Democrats, especially all those who devised and pushed the chain migration program.
Not only should this program be ended immediately, but those who drafted it and those who admitted Akayed Ullah, if any of them are still in office, should be fired immediately.
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“White House: ‘It’s Time to End Chain Migration,’” by Charles Fain Lehman, Washington Free Beacon, December 18, 2017 (thanks to Todd):
In its latest move for immigration reform, the Trump administration issued a call Friday for an end to chain migration, the immigration process by which immigrants are able to sponsor their immediate and extended family to join them in the United States.
Chain migration, as defined by the White House, is “the process by which foreign nationals permanently resettle within the U.S. and subsequently bring over their foreign relatives, who then have the opportunity to bring over their foreign relatives, and so on, until entire extended families are resettled within the country.”
What this means in practice is that the admission of a single immigrant—including through the controversial “diversity visa lottery,” which admits immigrants from countries otherwise underrepresented in immigration patterns—can lead to an inflow of other immigrants who are part of the first person’s extended family.
Estimates by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) find that each new immigrant brings an average of 3.45 additional relatives to the United States, which adds up to about 61 percent of immigrants arriving overall between 1981 and 2016. (The White House suggested the number was closer to 65 percent.)
President Donald Trump further attacked chain migration in his weekly address, calling on Congress to implement a more merit-based approach to migration.
“It is time to create a merit-based immigration system that makes sense for a modern economy—selecting new arrivals based on their ability to support themselves financially and to make positive contributions to U.S society. Base it on love of our country. We want people that come in, that can love our country,” Trump said.
Chain migration has been a feature of U.S. immigration policy in some form or another since at least 1924, when spouses and children were not counted towards national quotas under the contemporary immigration system. In 1952, Congress extended those “chains” to parents, adult children, and adult siblings; the 1965 reform did away with national quotas and increasingly prioritized chain-migrating immigrants over those who immigrated on skilled migration basis.
Today, immigration law distinguishes five categories of family preference immigration. The first, containing spouses, minor children, and parents of full citizens, can immigrate without limit. The other four, including unmarried adult children, the immediate relatives of lawful permanent residents (LPRs), and the married children and siblings of citizens, are legally capped.
All of this is in line with the goal of “family reunification,” one of several goals which have been a component of U.S. immigration law since 1952. But, many critics contend, this focus has come at the cost of adverse impacts on national security and the economy.
Chain migration, the White House said in its release, reduces skill in the labor force by bringing in large numbers of low-skilled laborers, who in turn drive down the price of their work, further reducing employment for low-skilled citizens and driving down wages. It may also place a burden on federal and state social services resources, further exacerbating state and federal deficit and debt.
Harvard immigration economist George Borjas has provided evidence for the common-sense notion that an increase in the supply of low-skilled labor depresses low-skilled wages. His analysis of the decennial census between 1960 and 2010 suggested that a 10 percent increase in a skill group due to immigration leads to a 3-4 percent drop in the wage rate.
This, Borjas argues, is why many Americans refuse to take jobs staffed by immigrants: because immigrants are willing to do more work for less money, often because of illegal labor practice.
Tom Broadwater, president of labor advocacy group Americans4Work, told the Washington Free Beacon that he sees chain migration as part of a broader overall threat to the wellbeing of America’s least-privileged citizens.
“A dramatic increase in the numbers of people immigrating here legally and coming here illegally has had a dramatic impact on the labor market, and has displaced a large number of middle-aged and lower-echelon blue collar American laborers from the workplace earlier than they would have anticipated stopping work. It has had a much more severe impact on African-Americans and Hispanic-American citizens,” Broadwater said.
The administration also claimed that chain migration poses a threat to national security, insofar as it reduces merit-based criteria for admission to the United States. Such concerns have been thrown into stark relief following both successful and attempted terror attacks in New York; one arrived via chain migration, while another came via the diversity lottery and had since sponsored 23 others….
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18 Comments
6 years ago
allah ‘calls for hate crime’, ‘kill them’ https://quran.com/4/89 https://youtu.be/j32xTt0DPEw
6 years ago
From article: “Not only should this program (chain migration) be ended immediately, but those who drafted it and those who admitted Akayed Ullah, if any of them are still in office, should be fired immediately.
No time to waste. Issue executive order, if necessary. And – “You’re fired!” – to Obama holdovers – pronto
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
Chuck Schumer, a.k.a. “Senator Schmuck”, was one of the original authors and proponents of this policy of exponential intrusion.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
The parents of this person are evidently not fans of the U.S. governments rules either since they “berated” the arrest of a known bomber. Send them back where they came from.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
I think more than firing should be done. They should all be charged with treason (including Obama), because what they have done is to remove decisions on immigration away from the American public and place it into the hands of the “immigrants.” This is a disenfranchisement of the American public and a total undermining of any immigration policy.
6 years ago
Rid the world of it! There wil be NO peace as long as islam is allowed to exist!
6 years ago
Before the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965 US immigration policy heavily favored European immigration. Very few non-Europeans were allowed in. The reason for this was so that the new immigrants, being closely related to the people already here would be able to assimilate quickly and smoothly. They already shared a common culture and so on. The only real barrier was they needed to learn English. All this changed in 1965 with Hart-Celler. Third World immigrants of every sort and having zero in common with the people already here would now be allowed in and actually became favored over Europeans. Big Teddy Kennedy sponsored the bill in the Senate (knowing these types of immigrants would vote Demoncat) and it was the Catholic Church that lobbied heavily for the Chain Migration aspect of the bill so as to keep families together. Yes, yes, we see the lovely fruit of all this today.
6 years ago
Chain them all up put them on a ship and throw them overboard in the Ocean.
6 years ago
The items outlined in President Trump’s national security speech of yesterday and the items he outlined are not new or radical but are contained in public law. More specifically, 8 USC Section 1182 entitled “Inadmissible Aliens”.
As he has so eloquently stated, “If you don’t have a border, you don’t have a country.”
6 years ago
Great to see Trump setting out to end – chain migration finally
6 years ago
Its time to end “grope and chains”
6 years ago
“Chain migration” is an invention of the communist Demoncraps and Lieberals. Just like their invention of “civil” rights, income taxes, multiculturalism, diversity, global warming, safe space and all that crap.
6 years ago
Go Trump go! I can only applaud as I watch from Canada, that there is some return to sanity. A slow process for sure .
6 years ago
get these animals out of our country. make America safe again. and keep our livestock safe from those rapists
6 years ago
Reply to
Andrew Sears
I am with you all the way but I suspect that those who have already come here will be allowed to stay because no one in government seems to have the balls to go up against the press.
6 years ago
Chain migration puts US immigration into the hands of the immigrants. The immigrants determine who comes here!
And not only should Obama appointees that implemented this be fired, Obama should be arrested for taking control of immigration AWAY from the American public and placing it into the hands of foreigners. Is this treason or is it not? Along with all of the other stuff that he has done. ALL OBAMA appointees and ALL of the employees that his appointees hired should be fired.
