The most deadly aspect of huddle-and-cuddle is now staring us in the face. Our immigration policy favors family reunification over all other considerations, including national security. Once an immigrant gets in, we let him send for his family members, a policy that favors the very ethnic groups we should be leery of, but neurotic sentiment mitigates against leeriness. Show us a slew of Third World relatives — Eldest Brother, Venerable Aunt, Honorable Uncle, and two dozen fifth cousins all named Mohammed — and we will show you a visa, because an "extended family" is even more sacrosanct than the immediate kind.
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Nice prose but utter tripe. Under immigration laws, immediate relatives are defined as minor children and parents. Extended relatives are adult children and brothers and sisters. Visas are available for immediate relatives of US citizens. A limited number of visas are available for adult children of US citizens, spouses or children of relatives, or brothers and sisters of US citizens. Where the visas are limited, you have to wait your turn in line. As of April, they are now processing visas in some categories that were filed as far back as March 1, 1980. No visa categories are available for aunts, uncles and first cousins, much less fifth cousins. I already explained why this was not amnesty on a prior thread. It continues to amaze me how so many continue to spout the same mantra without knowing what they are talking about.