dailycaller
WILL RACKE
Immigration and Foreign Policy Reporter
5:42 PM 09/27/2017
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/27/report-average-mexican-immigrant-sponsors-more-than-six-relatives-for-visas/Family-based migration is a huge “multiplier” of overall immigration levels, especially for a handful of countries including Mexico and China, according to a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report released Wednesday.
The report quantifies the role of chain migration in the U.S. immigration system.
Over the last 35 years, chain migration has greatly surpassed new immigration by what are known as “initiating immigrants,” or the first in their family to settle permanently in America. Of the 33 million legal immigrants admitted to the U.S. from 1981 to 2016, about 20 million — 61 percent — were chain migration immigrants, according to the report written by Jessica Vaughan, CIS director of policy studies.
