“I think disallowing a spouse and children is not only politically difficult, but may be a bad idea. Disallowing, or reducing quotas for, parents and siblings (in most cases) would also have to overcome political opposition, as we saw in the amnesty debates, but has more real merit IMO. “
I am not talking about spouses, I agree thats not sensible, but the parents, siblings etc. that makes it chain migration. The majority of legal immigration comes from that, and its out of whack. Yes, it has merit to lower it, and yes it is vigorously opposed because so many are invested in it. But then you have a very unbalanced immigration system today unlike what we had before majority of immigrants from a single country, Mexico. We never had that before.
GOP welfare reform got legal immigrants off of welfare and got parents off of soc sec, but then there was enough hard-case whining where it got put back on. no matter the affadavits, when you have no-income people coming here, they end up a net drain on social services one way or another.
BTW, Check this out:
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-can-states-do-about-illegal.html
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17.Elect a governor and lt. gov. who will do their jobs.
I don’t know how to navigate to the Texas Chapter in FR. I assume it is possible, how do you do it?