There are literally elected GOP officials who have said since this release that this marks the moment that the GOP loses the house and Trump gets impeached. |
What you're referring to, is people sponsoring their family members for immigration. For example, I know somebody who came to the US as a child refugee from Vietnam. When she grew up, as a naturalized US citizen, she started on the long and expensive process of sponsoring her parents, her three siblings, and the siblings' spouses and children. Do you think that's bad? Do you think that she should not have been allowed to do this? And if so, why? There is no such thing as "chain migration" -- chains don't migrate. We're talking about people. The immigration of people. |
I really don't understand why it's such a bad thing to try to keep families together. I thought the Rs were the party o family values. I know a Vietnamese refugee too who petitioned for her siblings to come. They are all taxpaying citizens now. When she first came here she stayed with foster parents somewhere down south. They are still close. |
NP. I think it's bad. If the people can't get in on their own merits, why do we want them here? What do they have to offer the country? They might get a + in a column because they know someone here, but that's it. Having a relative would not be sufficient to allow someone to immigrate. And here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_migration you can read up on why people call it chain migration and where the concept came from, since it seems to be troubling you. |
DP.. what "merit" did your ancestors have that enabled them to come here? What about Trump's mother, who was a maid from Scotland? |
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Most people who came here 100 years ago didn't "offer the country something" they came to flee persecution from elsewhere or they came to make a better life. This is such racist bullshit, it is shameful.
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Get in on their merits? What merit do you have, what makes you so special? Being born here? You had nothing to do with that. |
PP you're responding to. When your ancestors arrived here, what merits did they get in on? What did they have to offer the country? More practically, why would anybody considered meritorious by you want to immigrate to a country that won't allow their family in? But as long as you're willing to say, "People shouldn't be allowed to immigrate AND be with their families," then have at it, I guess. That's what your opposition to "chain migration" really means. |
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Indeed. What do Melania's parents and sister have to offer this country? |
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My mother immigrated here on the basis of marrying my father, a US citizen. What did she have to offer this country? Boot her out! Heck, boot my father out, too -- he's an anchor baby! He's only a US citizen because his father immigrated at the age of 3, and what does a 3-year-old have to offer this country? Pah!
Or, um, something... |
Shooting the natives, occupying the land, and founding the country in my case. Mine were settlers/colonists, not immigrants. |
Nah, they were settlers/colonists AND immigrants. |
She was a spouse! Still allowed. So, you are saying we should welcome everyone? You cannot have free public services and free immigration. Just want work. All the immigrants that came over 100 years ago had to make it on their own with no help from the government. No EBT, etc. No "affordable housing" etc. Big difference. And, they didn't have phones to talk to their parents or visit back and forth. No internet to communicate. Much different. They severed their ties--or, at least, most of them did. |
How is a wall going to do that? Most people fly in and then never leave. |