Chain Migration and Legacy Admissions
"Operation Immigration Blues"
Topics: Chain Migration
No matter how much we improve our vetting, the sheer momentum of chain migration-driven immigration from terror-afflicted parts of the world is itself a national security risk. Trying to screen this huge annual number of chain migration applicants is a significant burden on immigration and law enforcement agencies, and causes fiscal and economic problems to boot.
Andrew R. Arthur, the Center's Resident Fellow in Law and Policy, discusses merit based immigration.
Jessica Vaughan, the Center's Director of Policy Studies, discusses financial cost of chain migration caused by an amnesty for DACA participants.