‘chain migration,’ a term that worries immigration advocates

Michael Walsh
Yahoo News September 15, 2017

President Trump spoke out against “chain migration” on Friday. (Yahoo News photo Illustration; photos: Getty)
President Trump echoed anti-immigration groups Friday morning when he suddenly condemned any new immigration policy that would allow “chain migration.”

“CHAIN MIGRATION cannot be allowed to be part of any legislation on Immigration!” he exclaimed.

Trump was referring to an immigration-policy concept allowing immigrants to sponsor nonnuclear family members causing migration surge. Critics of liberal immigration policies argue that one immigrant will sponsor several others who in turn sponsor even more.

Heidi Beirich, the director of the South Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Intelligence Project, told Yahoo News, that “chain migration” is a phrase “from the anti-immigrant world.” It is popular among groups that want to reduce legal immigration levels like the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA.

“They don’t like it because they argue that it brought all these kinds of ‘undesirables’ to the United States,” Beirich said.   https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-abruptly-attacks-chain-migration-term-worries-immigration-advocates-184429663.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-abruptly-attacks-chain-migration-term-worries-immigration-advocates-184429663.html