There is consensus that we can get to a
solution within the timeframe here, but let me be very clear. Any
deal--whether it is in business, sports, or certainly in politics--has
to have some symmetry. Therefore, any solution for the DACA situation
must include a solution for our chain migration crisis. We must continue working with the President. He is holding us
accountable. He is moving at a business pace, but to do that, we really
have to talk about chain migration. I understand there are other areas
that we have to talk about, as well, but there is a lot of
disinformation about what it really is. Chain migration is nothing more than a law put in place in 1965 to
allow legal permanent residents and U.S. citizens to sponsor people for
U.S. citizenship. It was put in place in 1965. It has been updated a
little bit. But today, a legal permanent resident--for the most part,
this is someone who has come in qualified in our legal immigration
system, who goes through a 5-year waiting period, who eventually can
apply for U.S. citizenship. While they are a legal permanent resident,
almost immediately they can sponsor spouses, minor children, and
unmarried adult children. That is current law. Once they become a citizen--and this is true of any U.S. citizen,
whether they were a recent immigrant or were born here; a U.S. citizen
can sponsor their parents, their spouses, minor children, unmarried
adult children, married adult children, and siblings
The issue around this is pretty simple. We have a chart here which
shows that in 1965, when this law was put in place, approximately
300,000 U.S. citizens were brought into the United States in that year
under this system. Last year, we had, roughly, about 1.1 million.
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