On the issue of "Family Reunification Visas" and "Chain Migration"
May 21, 2019 07:09:58 #
I recommend the article entitled, "The Media Are (Deliberately?) Confused About Chain Migration" by Jason Richwine (link at bottom). An alternative title could be "Visas for immediate family are different from visas for extended family".
"Within the broad category of family reunification visas, there is an important distinction between visas for immediate family (spouses and minor children) and extended family (adult siblings and adult sons and daughters).
When immigration restrictionists criticize chain migration, they are criticizing only the extended family visas – which allow, for example, a U.S. citizen to sponsor his adult brother, who brings his wife, who sponsors her sister, and so on. In the case of visas for immediate family members, there is no chain – a man sponsors his wife and minor children, and that is the end of the immediate family links."
The article goes on to point out how the MSM (specific outlets such as U S News, the NYT, The Week, and of course CNN) attempt to confuse the issue, and use that confusion to negatively opine on the administrations immigration plan that is about to be unveiled.
The article concludes with the following observation, "These media outlets are probably not intentionally getting the story wrong. Nevertheless, it's hard to avoid the suspicion that their sloppiness is related to their personal biases. Most reporters and editors oppose the Kushner plan, so negative-sounding claims about it don't raise fact-checking alarm bells in their minds. By contrast, reporters will bend over backward to dismiss critiques of a policy they favor. Governed as they are by human nature, members of the Washington press corps acquire as much information as they need to confirm their own preconceptions – but rarely any information beyond that."
https://cis.org/Richwine/Media-Are-Deliberately-Confused-About-Chain-Migration?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=1320865cbf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_27_04_17_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7dc4c5d977-1320865cbf-45125461
"Within the broad category of family reunification visas, there is an important distinction between visas for immediate family (spouses and minor children) and extended family (adult siblings and adult sons and daughters).
When immigration restrictionists criticize chain migration, they are criticizing only the extended family visas – which allow, for example, a U.S. citizen to sponsor his adult brother, who brings his wife, who sponsors her sister, and so on. In the case of visas for immediate family members, there is no chain – a man sponsors his wife and minor children, and that is the end of the immediate family links."
The article goes on to point out how the MSM (specific outlets such as U S News, the NYT, The Week, and of course CNN) attempt to confuse the issue, and use that confusion to negatively opine on the administrations immigration plan that is about to be unveiled.
The article concludes with the following observation, "These media outlets are probably not intentionally getting the story wrong. Nevertheless, it's hard to avoid the suspicion that their sloppiness is related to their personal biases. Most reporters and editors oppose the Kushner plan, so negative-sounding claims about it don't raise fact-checking alarm bells in their minds. By contrast, reporters will bend over backward to dismiss critiques of a policy they favor. Governed as they are by human nature, members of the Washington press corps acquire as much information as they need to confirm their own preconceptions – but rarely any information beyond that."
https://cis.org/Richwine/Media-Are-Deliberately-Confused-About-Chain-Migration?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=1320865cbf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_27_04_17_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7dc4c5d977-1320865cbf-45125461
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