Chain Migration is Good Migration

 It would seem chain migration should be one of the most protected forms of immigration. Family members wanting to join other family members? Isn't that as good as it gets as far as reasons for coming here to America?
  But, some people don't see it that way -- including President Trump. They seek to bring an a sudden end to chain migration.
  That we are using the term, "chain migration," these days is interesting. The term is new to you, isn't it? If we were to just call it by another term often used -- family reunification -- its opponents would have a harder sell. How do you oppose family unification? "Chain Migration," on the other hand, is a thing you can oppose. The term even has an evil sound to it, suggesting that one wicked entry is leading to another. I looked the term up, and found it once meant people of a certain community in another country following each other to communities in the U.S. These days, though, the term is most always used just to refer to family members following family members.
   There are reasons for this -- reasons for using the term just to apply to families and reasons for opposing families following families more than communities following communities. When one family member succeeds in coming to the U.S., others are often allowed to come simply because they are related. Admittance becomes somewhat automatic.Thus, those who want to control immigration lose control of picking and choosing who will be allowed and who won't.
   Now, people who come via chain migration have an overall easier time than those who strike out for the border on their lonesome. They have a place to stay when they arrive. And, they have people looking out for them. They are not alone in a foreign land.
  So, what does all this mean if you seek to control immigration? If you don't want too much immigration, you don't want immigration that is easy. So, opponents of immigration seek to slam the door on chain migration so migration will not be so easy and so they can better weed out the immigrants they don't want.
   Now, another thing: Those coming via chain migration are more likely to stay once they arrive. If a migrant comes just to make money working in the potato fields, he will likely make his dollar and head back home to rejoin his family and friends. But, if a person comes to join family and friends, he isn't so likely to go back.
   So, those who don't want immigrants to stay seek to end what to them is a nefarious thing: one arrival leading to a string of arrivals.
   I believe much the opposite. I see "chain" migration as neither a dangerous nor a nefarious thing. I see it as family joining family, loved ones joining loved ones. To outlaw this seems to me almost criminal. If we are to allow any immigration at all, it seems these should be at the front of the line.