The following article by Raquel Aldana, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity and Professor of Law, University of California/Davis, was posted on the Conversation website February 2, 2018:
President Donald Trump has embraced the rhetoric of “chain migration” to spread the message that the United States is legally letting in too many of the wrong kind of immigrant.
That term, however, distorts the facts.
As a scholar on U.S. immigration law and policy, I’d like to correct and contextualize the numbers on the now maligned “family-based immigration,” and uncover the biases that underlie the preference for the “highly-skilled” immigrant. Family immigration is subject to significant limitations and it exists because American values include ideals such as family unification. Continue reading “Debunking 3 myths behind ‘chain migration’ and ‘low-skilled’ immigrants”