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CHAIN MIGRATION
Chain Migration refers to the endless and often-snowballing chains of
foreign nationals who are allowed to immigrate because previous
immigrants can send for ADULT relatives.

It is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this
country to quadruple from the 1960s. As such, it is one of the chief
culprits in America's current record-breaking population boom and all
the attendant sprawl, congestion, environmental habitant losses, school
overcrowding and failure to meet pollution goals.

Chain Migration is about *family reunification* beyond the nuclear
family. Until the late 1950s, America's immigration tradition of family
unity had only included spouses and minor children.

But since then, immigrants can also send for their sibling, parents and
adult children. Because each of those can then bring in their own adult
relatives and nuclear family, a single immigrant can eventually be
responsible for the arrival in the United States of his/her aunts,
uncles, nephews, nieces, first cousins, second cousins once-removed, in
a spiraling chain that eventually could reach most of the world's 6
billion-plus residents.

The claim that Chain Migration is about *family reunification* ignores
the fact that each immigrant who comes to the U.S. *disunites* another
family by leaving some new relatives behind. If a person really wants
to live near his/her extended family, he/she should remain in the
country where that extended family lives. Except for the very small
percentage of each year's newcomers who are refugees, nobody is forcing
immigrants to leave their families.

Chain Migration was cited by the bi-partisan Commission on Immigration
Reform, chaired by Barbara Jordan, as an essential device that runs
immigration numbers so high that they create economic injustice against
vulnerable American workers

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