Mr. Trump says that the administration insists on ending “chain
migration” as a part of any deal on DACA or Dreamers. See post below.
Chain migration is the Republican code word for what they
used to call “Anchor Babies.”
That is, current law since 1965 has permitted the immigration
of some family members of current U.S.
citizens and permanent residents including husbands, wives, children, and
parents.
The Republican argument is that persons get visas and come to
the U.S., then they bring their families, children, brothers and sisters, and
other relatives creating a “chain” of immigration.
Republican proposals would
eliminate family-based visas for siblings of U.S. citizens and set a cap at age
31 for married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens seeking immigrant visas.
In place of family based visas,
Republican proposals would allocate 120,000 immigrant visas per year for Track
One visas, a number that could increase by as much as 5 percent each subsequent
year as long as unemployment remains under 8.5 percent, up to a cap of 250,000
visas. The visas would be allocated based on a point system that takes into
account various factors, including educational degrees, employment experience,
the needs of U.S. employers, U.S. citizen relatives, and age.
The Catholic Church and others argue for family unification
as a criteria for permitting immigration.
The U.S. bishops and the teachings of the Catholic Church” Strangers No
Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope. Assert
that the Church, along with other members of our democratic society, has the
right to work to change laws which are believed to violate basic human dignity,
imbued by the Creator. In the case of immigration, the U.S. bishops believe
that the broken U.S. immigration system separates families, contributes to the
exploitation of migrant workers in the workplace; their abuse by ruthless
smugglers; and their deaths in the desert as they seek to find work to seek
protection and support their families.
"Why do immigrants come here illegally? Why don’t some immigrants
come here legally?
One of the primary reasons certain immigrants do not come to the
United States through lawful mechanisms is because of the many systemic
barriers that prevent them from coming through a legal process. They come
illegally because there are insufficient visas under the current system to come
legally. Our system contains a very limited number of permanent visas for low-wage
laborers to come to the United States, but the demand for their work is much
higher, as many as 300,000 undocumented people each year are absorbed into the
U.S. workforce. Immigrants also come illegally because there is an enormous
backlog that prevents them from reunifying with family members currently living
in the United States in a timely fashion. Some family members might have to
wait for more than a decade before
their visa is processed and for reunification can occur. Lastly, some
immigrants arrive at our borders as they are fleeing persecution and seeking
protection and cannot safely live in their home countries. Most recently we
have seen this in the case of the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador,
Honduras, and Guatemala.”
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