Posted on 02/20/2020 11:50:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
After nearly a dozen years moving through the U.S. visa system, Sai Kyaw’s brother and sister and their families were at the finish line: a final interview before they could leave Myanmar to join him in Massachusetts and work at his restaurant.
Then a dramatic turn in U.S. immigration policy halted their plans. The interview was postponed, and it’s not clear when, or whether, it will be rescheduled.
“It’s terrible,” Kyaw said. “There’s nothing we can really do except pray. They’ve been waiting 12 years. If they have to wait another 12 years, they will.”
His is just one of many stories of confusion, sorrow and outrage spreading across some immigrant communities after the announcement of a Trump administration policy that is expected to all but shut down family-based immigration from Myanmar, also known as Burma, as well as Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan and Eritrea. The policy also restricts visas from Sudan and Tanzania.
In signing a proclamation last month that takes effect Friday, President Donald Trump said those countries failed to meet minimum security standards. It was his latest crackdown on his signature issue of immigration.
Unlike previous travel bans, the new rules are narrower. They halt immigrant visas from Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar and Kyrgystan, covering people who want to live in the U.S. permanently and are sponsored by family members or employers. They also eliminate participation in a visa lottery program in which a computer randomly selects up to 55,000 people for visas from underrepresented countries. Sudan and Tanzania will also be barred from the lottery.
The ban does not affect immigrants traveling to the U.S. for a temporary stay, including tourists and students, or immigrants already in the U.S. There are exceptions, including dual citizenship holders.
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Is it setting off panic in legal or illegal immigrant communities? The commie Dems don’t make a difference between the two, I do.
Where they won’t pay taxes.
Won’t pay FICA or Social Security.
Thus showing no income, they will claim welfare when its allowed
and likely being in a blue city (like mine) where local government coordinates with groups like Catholic Charities - they may be given free-housing (which they will rent to others), signed up for food-stamps, and special immersion programs at the public school.
it may have something to do with a vetting problem - just a guess.
Please, can we have 15 million more of these? /s
Between the illegals and these sorts of immigrants, my region is sure
a lot more fun. /s
Boo-Hoo!
(And it will always be ‘Burma’ to me!)
It is time the world gets over the idea that the United States can be the flophouse for anybody who has family here, regardless of their ability to contribute and/or support themselves here.
How many of these “Trump is going to sell out his base” Bullcrap articles to we see every few months being crapped out by the MSM with anonymous sources or just plain made up stories?
Stop falling for this crap
We are not importing Democrats! Yeah!!!!!
MORE VICTIMS !!
I don’t know. We have a large community of Burmese immigrants on my side of town here in Indy and they have been good neighbors. They have a strong Asian work ethic - I don’t know any who don’t have jobs. They keep up their property and are not a source of crime. I have met and interacted with many. One thing, not a singe one I have met uses anything but the word Burma to call their home country. None consider themselves from “Myanmar” - although some obviously come to America after the country changed it’s name.
and they can re-immigrate back to the hole they left - bye
I didn’t say they were lazy or common criminals - they just know how to work the system, scam government, and maximize everything the blue-state leftist bureaucracy provides - whether needed or not.
Waiting years to do it the right way?
Silly immigrant wanna be.
Should gave just flown to Mexico and simply walked across.
Migre gotta be Migre. /s
I think there are groups that have large subsets of the lazy and criminal, including a desire to manipulate the system and mooch off of it. It’s why we need the wall. I’m just saying Burmese are not one of those groups. They are the kind of immigrants we want. (In the right measure)
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