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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump: "We must get rid of Chain, and, of course, keep building, but much faster, THE WALL!"
Donald J. Trump
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We must have Border Security, get rid of Chain, Lottery, Catch & Release Sanctuary Cities - go to Merit based Immigration. Protect ICE and Law Enforcement and, of course, keep building, but much faster, THE WALL!
4:57 AM - 30 Jul 2018
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We must have Border Security, get rid of Chain, Lottery, Catch & Release Sanctuary Cities - go to Merit based Immigration. Protect ICE and Law Enforcement and, of course, keep building, but much faster, THE WALL!
4:57 AM - 30 Jul 2018
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MEANWHILE...
Melania Trumps parents are legal permanent residents, raising questions about whether they relied on chain migration
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/melania-trumps-parents-are-legal-permanent-residents-raising-questions-about-whether-they-relied-on-chain-migration/2018/02/21/3b573df8-1687-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.757eaa569f78
Questions over the Knavses immigration status have escalated since Trump campaigned for the White House on a hard-line anti-immigration agenda. Those questions grew sharper last month, when the president proposed ending the decades-long ability of U.S. citizens to sponsor their parents and siblings for legal residency in the United States.
Trump has repeatedly blasted the long-standing policy as chain migration. In last months State of the Union address, the president called that process a threat to Americans security and quality of life. Under his plan, he said, only spouses and minor children could be sponsored for legal residency.
But immigration experts said that such a path was the most likely method his in-laws would have used to obtain permits to live in the United States.
Matthew Kolken, a partner at a New York immigration law firm, said there are only two substantive ways Trumps in-laws could gain green cards: through sponsorship by their daughter or an employer. The latter is unlikely, he said, as it would require evidence that there were no Americans who could do the job for which they were hired.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/melania-trumps-parents-are-legal-permanent-residents-raising-questions-about-whether-they-relied-on-chain-migration/2018/02/21/3b573df8-1687-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.757eaa569f78
Questions over the Knavses immigration status have escalated since Trump campaigned for the White House on a hard-line anti-immigration agenda. Those questions grew sharper last month, when the president proposed ending the decades-long ability of U.S. citizens to sponsor their parents and siblings for legal residency in the United States.
Trump has repeatedly blasted the long-standing policy as chain migration. In last months State of the Union address, the president called that process a threat to Americans security and quality of life. Under his plan, he said, only spouses and minor children could be sponsored for legal residency.
But immigration experts said that such a path was the most likely method his in-laws would have used to obtain permits to live in the United States.
Matthew Kolken, a partner at a New York immigration law firm, said there are only two substantive ways Trumps in-laws could gain green cards: through sponsorship by their daughter or an employer. The latter is unlikely, he said, as it would require evidence that there were no Americans who could do the job for which they were hired.
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Trump: "We must get rid of Chain, and, of course, keep building, but much faster, THE WALL!" (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jul 2018
OP
Chain...is a propaganda word for the Family Reunification Law. Which sounds more useful for
Fred Sanders
Jul 2018
#6
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,593 posts)1. I wonder...
If there was Merit Based immigration when Trumps family came to the US, would they have passed?
Would they have had enough Merit?
maxrandb
(15,193 posts)2. "Play FREEBIRD"!!!!
You syphilitic prick!
maxrandb
(15,193 posts)3. Is Toda writing his tweets?
Chain is a fabulous Fleetwood Mac song by the way.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)6. Chain...is a propaganda word for the Family Reunification Law. Which sounds more useful for
a Hate monger and fear sower?
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)4. But, see...look at them. They're obviously fine, upstanding
white immigrants. Their appearance alone shows their perfect right to immigrate into the USA. They're not at all like the swarthy immigrants Trump wants to keep out of the country.