Thread: Marines Commercial in Spanish

President Bush issued an executive order in 2002, note the date.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases ... 03-24.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 3, 2002

Expedited Naturalization Executive Order
Executive Order Expedited Naturalization of Aliens and Noncitizen Nationals Serving in An Active-Duty Status During the War on Terrorism




By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1440) (the "Act"), and solely in order to provide expedited naturalization for aliens and noncitizen nationals serving in an active-duty status in the Armed Forces of the United States during the period of the war against terrorists of global reach, it is hereby ordered as follows:

For the purpose of determining qualification for the exception from the usual requirements for naturalization, I designate as a period in which the Armed Forces of the United States were engaged in armed conflict with a hostile foreign force the period beginning on September 11, 2001. Such period will be deemed to terminate on a date designated by future Executive Order. Those persons serving honorably in active-duty status in the Armed Forces of the United States, during the period beginning on September 11, 2001, and terminating on the date to be so designated, are eligible for naturalization in accordance with the statutory exception to the naturalization requirements, as provided in section 329 of the Act. Nothing contained in this order is intended to affect, nor does it affect, any other power, right, or obligation of the United States, its agencies, officers, employees, or any other person under Federal law or the law of nations.

GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 3, 2002.

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I believe it's called chain-migration

That's it!

Chain Migration refers to the endless and often-snowballing chains of foreign nationals who are allowed to immigrate because previous immigrants can send for ADULT relatives.

It is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple from the 1960s. As such, it is one of the chief culprits in America's current record-breaking population boom and all the attendant sprawl, congestion, environmental habitant losses, school overcrowding and failure to meet pollution goals.

Chain Migration is about *family reunification* beyond the nuclear family. Until the late 1950s, America's immigration tradition of family unity had only included spouses and minor children.

But since then, immigrants can also send for their sibling, parents and adult children. Because each of those can then bring in their own adult relatives and nuclear family, a single immigrant can eventually be responsible for the arrival in the United States of his/her aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, first cousins, second cousins once-removed, in a spiraling chain that eventually could reach most of the world's 6 billion-plus residents.

The claim that Chain Migration is about *family reunification* ignores the fact that each immigrant who comes to the U.S. *disunites* another family by leaving some new relatives behind. If a person really wants to live near his/her extended family, he/she should remain in the country where that extended family lives. Except for the very small percentage of each year's newcomers who are refugees, nobody is forcing immigrants to leave their families.

Chain Migration was cited by the bi-partisan Commission on Immigration Reform, chaired by Barbara Jordan, as an essential device that runs immigration numbers so high that they create economic injustice against vulnerable American workers
http://grades.betterimmigration.com/iss ... tus=Career

I feel that immigrants should only be abole to bring a spouse and minor children into the country. When immigrants do bring relatives over they pretty well have to be citizens and then they must prove they make a specific amount of money to support themselves and their relative(s).