Posted on 02/15/2011 8:58:35 AM PST by mcosta79
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) has introduced H.R. 692 that would would eliminate the extended family visa categories (e.g., married sons and daughters of citizens, etc.), thus ending “chain migration” as recommended by the bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission in 1997. Current immigration law allows U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to sponsor non-nuclear, adult family members, creating an endless chain of mass legal immigration. Rep. Gingrey's bill would end this practice by disallowing all adult family members from receiving legal permanent residency.
H.R. 692, which is one of NumbersUSA's top legislative priorities, would reduce the number of annual issuance of family-sponsored visas by more than 100,000. The impact wouldn't only be felt immediately, but would have a major impact on future immigration numbers.
"Chain migration categories multiply every mistake made in the immigration system and ultimately are responsible for more than half of all immigration," NumbersUSA President and CEO Roy Beck said. "And they cause much of illegal immigration by enticing millions of foreign citizens to believe that they eventually have a right to come to the U.S. so why not just come illegally and wait for their time."
In a change from past versions of the bill, Rep. Gingrey's new bill would also eliminate greencards for parents of U.S. citizens, but it does create a renewable visa class for parents of U.S. citizens. However, the parents will not be eligible to work in the United States, and U.S. citizen son or daughter must provide satisfactory proof that they can financially support the parents, including proof of health care coverage while the parents are residing in the United States.
Check your Action Board for a fax to your Congressperson, urging them to co-sponsor H.R. 692.
Gingrey's bill is a smart attempt to end the insanity.
With millions out of work there is NO REASON to allow this immigration free-for-all to continue.
Great move by Gingrey!
BTTT
Some 2009 data (the latest available) from the DHS’s Office of Immigration Statistics:
Total legal influx: 1,130,818
Family-sponsored immigrants: 747, 413. About 70% of total.
Married offspring of U.S. citizens (i.e., definite adults): 25,930
Parents of U.S. Citizens (i.e., also definite adults): 120,155.
Unmarried sons/daughters of U.S. citizens (probably includes adults): 23,965.
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How do some immigrant’s 80-year-old parents, or his 35-year-old illiterate son enhance our economic competitiveness? They don’t, but we should be grateful for their enrichment of our cultural fabric.
Here’s the full DHS report on legal immigration between 2007 and 2009:
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/lpr_fr_2009.pdf
Now let's work on that anchor baby thing.
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!
Tough sledding. Lots of mainland Chinese and Indians retiring here to the Bay Area, where the freebies are never ending.
Bizarre to see them wandering the streets in their little Mao jackets, tramping the ground that they worked so many decades to try to destroy.
Take away the green cards, the SSI, the medi-cal, the medi-care? Woo Wee, they ain't gonna like that....lotsa screaming
Thirty years too late but then again better late than never!
Thanks for Rep Gingrey for stepping up....lets hope the pro-Illegal Alien GOP Leadership does not kill the bill....as they already have pushed to defund E-Verify and other Border Security matters.
We do not need any immigration at this time...with so many Americans unemployed and working only part-time. We do not need any immigration at this time.
I love it!!!!
Rep. Phil Gingrey Offers Bill to End Chain Migration
Way overdue.
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