Chain Migration Explained by Scholars
By Nayla Rush on January 15, 2018
In line with an immigration policy based on merit and skill, not on family ties, the White house is pushing to end chain migration, a system "whereby one immigrant can bring in their entire extended families, who can bring in their families and so on."
In response, as my colleague Mark Krikorian observed, "immigration expansionists and the media are doing their best to taint the phrase," portraying it as a pejorative and nativist term.
Another dimension to this controversy was added recently by Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who told President Trump that the term "chain migration" was racist and offensive to African Americans: "I said to the president, 'do you realize how painful that term is to so many people? African Americans believe they migrated to America in chains, and when you speak to chain migration it hurts them personally.'"
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