What's all this "chain migration" business all about ?

[SteelChip]

If you are anything like me, you don't pay much attention to all the minutia involved in intramural political jaberwacky. I got better stuff to do and enough of it already pisses me off enough as it is. So a buddy sends me this article and I start reading...and I can only shake my head. Who the hell thinks this **** up and who thinks it is a good enough plan to make it into law.

Oh yea....and where the hell did them old timers hide all the tar and feathers.

Everything you ever wanted to know about chain migration
You can read a hundred such articles without understanding what percent of legal migration is due to chain migration, what exactly is chain migration, and how it works. But when you are done reading this article, you will be such an expert that all your friends will turn to you for advice and succor on the subject.

: https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...know_about_chain_migration.html#ixzz57U0V8JK6

Here's some highlights.....ur lowlights if ya will.

• Over the last 35 years, chain migration has greatly exceeded new immigration. Out of 33 million immigrants admitted to the United States from 1981 to 2016, about 20 million were chain migration immigrants (61 percent).

• Judging from preliminary administrative data, approximately 1,125,000 legal immigrants were approved for admission in 2016, which is about 7 percent higher than 2015, and one of the highest numbers in the last decade.

• The largest categories of chain migration are spouses and parents of naturalized U.S. citizens because admissions in these categories are unlimited by law.

• According to the most complete contemporary academic studies on chain migration, in recent years each new immigrant sponsored an average of 3.45 additional immigrants. In the early 1980s, the chain migration multiplier was 2.59, or more than 30 percent lower.

• Of the top immigrant-sending countries, Mexico has the highest rate of chain migration. In the most recent five-year cohort of immigrants studied (1996-2000), each new Mexican immigrant sponsored 6.38 additional legal immigrants.

What Trump has proposed is to eliminate the lottery system (now around 50,000 slots) and to limit chain migration to spouses and underage children, no parents, no brothers or sisters, and no adult children.

It would be a vast improvement over what we have now, where some 85% of people entering the country are not vetted for job skills, but is not an ideal long term immigration policy.

So we don't even vet our immigrants for job skills. Good idea, our welfare rolls are not full enough as it is....so let's just fill them lines up.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

I thought we outlawed chain migration back in the 1800s.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I thought we outlawed chain migration back in the 1800s.

I see what you did there.

 

[SteelChip]

I thought we outlawed chain migration back in the 1800s.

 

[SteelChip]

More info for yinz that was wonderin'....

( if you click on the image on this site, you can see the flow over the years )

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

1. Democratic Republic of Congo (Any country that has democratic in their name isn't): The last sentence in the wikipedia entry: "As of 2016, DR Congo's level of human development is 176th out of 187 countries, according to the Human Development Index.[5]" I'm sure they will make fine upstanding citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo

2. Somalia: We already know about them.

3. Burma (Also known as Myanmar): The Hindu residents got tired of muslim (Also known as rohingya's, you may have heard about them, but the media didn't give you the whole story) atrocities and started chasing them out of their country. I'm sure they will also make fine upstanding citizens.

4. Iraq: Thank you George Bush.

5: Syria: Thank you Obama, Clinton and Kerry.

6. Eritrea: A coin toss with Somalia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea

7. Bhutan: Not a clue why there are refugees. Sounds pretty good to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan

 

[tapeANaspirin2it]

This is why the Dems want chain migration so badly. They WANT unskilled or disabled people coming here so they become democrat voters.

They saw earlier how when you import people who can be self sufficient, they don’t vote Dem. That’s why Dems constantly try to expand the base of dependent people. All they care about is winning elections. They do not care one bit about this country so long as they are doing well.

Chain migration is the perfect illustration of this. There are plenty of skilled and educated people who would love to be citizens. The Dems would have you believe that bringing in thos type of people is some kind of racism even though they may be from the very same countries where we are already getting people.

Liberals are selling the notion that America has always accepted absolutely anybody and in fact, actually prefers to bring in the unskilled over the skilled because that is somehow the foundation of the country.

That’s not true. America did take nearly anybody for a time but that was because the nation was in dire need of unskilled manual labor. There’s a saying “the world needs ditch-diggers too”. Well, in th 1800s to about 1920, America needed ditch diggers more than they needed college educated people.

Until they didn’t.

Immigration was actually stopped almost completely for about 40 years. Why? We had enough and we needed time for all the new immigrants to assimilate.

Assimilate is nothing negative as they try to paint it today. It simply means becoming an integrated member of society, somebody who can speak the language, hold a job, and interact with citizens aside from their own ethnic group.

It does not mean getting rid of your heritage or traditions, look no further than the Irish, Italians, and Chinese. They have all integrated into American society while maintaining pride in their heritage. Ther are Irish organizations all over the place. Major cities have huge sections that are knows as Littly Italy or Chinatown. These are sections that have strong ethnic atmospheres but are still American at the same time.

Liberals now push multi-culturalism which preaches that each group should keep their own heritage and NOT assimilate. You see this now in Europe where they have big sections of cities that are no-go zones if you are not part of that group.

They are encouraging groups to not learn the host country’s language.

If i moved to Germany or Japan, i’d want to learn the language as soon as i could. Because i’d be isolated so long as i did not. Sure, i’d be able to get by, but i would always be a cultural outsider, excluded from some conversations with co-workers, limited in how far my career could go.

Why would that be good for me?

it wouldn’t. But liberals are trying to sell that self imposed handicap as some kind of moral good. It’s all a shameful scam, using people as pawns.