Broadly, that requires us to make it easier to immigrate legally and harder to immigrate illegally.
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There aren't too many folks trying to immigrate there, either.
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Markle will immigrate to England and become a British subject.
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Individuals enter on their own because they want to immigrate.
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This kind of Russian fatalism is precisely what made me immigrate.
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You went through the process to immigrate into this great nation.
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Those selected undergo U.S. security checks before being allowed to immigrate.
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Did I just sign up to immigrate to France because okay.
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She also stated her desire to immigrate to Iran, prosecutors said.
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Yes, that means if you are a Muslim who wants to immigrate from Syria or Afghanistan, you are going to get a lot more scrutiny than if you are a Jew trying to immigrate from Canada.
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A person never would have thought to need to leave, to immigrate.
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Chinese laborers could not immigrate and no Chinese could obtain naturalized citizenship.
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According to a preliminary report, 533,557 immigrate visas were issued in 2018.
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The process of applying to immigrate to Sweden can be done online.
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Do they want people to continue to immigrate to this country illegally?
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Mexicans immigrate to America illegally because of the lure of high-paying jobs.
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Some are near homophones with distinct but related meanings, like emigrate and immigrate.
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His older brother, Moshe, received a certificate to immigrate to British-controlled Palestine.
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But those definitions apply to people seeking to immigrate — not merely to visit.
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Individuals who immigrate often embody qualities that are highly sought after by employers.
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He is in post-war Hungry and applying to immigrate to the US. pic.twitter.
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Read: Did Melania Trump Immigrate to the US Illegally for a Nude Photo Shoot?
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It should not take 10 to 15 years to legally immigrate to this country.
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Trump, who was born in Slovenia and who helped her parents immigrate to America.
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In 1964, they abandoned everything with little money to immigrate to the United States.
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Of course you can still immigrate from China, but maybe it feels different now.
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Emad Levy, 52, was the last of Baghdad's Jews to immigrate to Israel, in 2010.
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Over the decades, the reasons for Cubans to immigrate to the US had also shifted.
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Or he can immigrate here and then successfully apply for citizenship, a process called naturalization.
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In 1945, the War Brides Act allowed foreign spouses of United States servicemen to immigrate.
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Fearful that "un-American" Muslims will immigrate to the United States and enact sharia law?
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China's iron immigration and refugee policy attracts little attention probably because few have sought to immigrate.
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They stayed and prospered, but he returned to India and waited nine years to immigrate legally.
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No place could be found to immigrate to as every place would be mostly the same.
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In principle, those who immigrate abandon the place that they should themselves reform and not escape.
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This would help significantly shorten the lines, thus removing some of the incentive to immigrate illegally.
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And, just as with the Hmongs, justice demands that we help these people immigrate, and quickly.
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And a processing backlog means it can take years for just one close relative to immigrate.
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Trump seems to wholly miss the point about why people, regardless of country of origin, immigrate.
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Last year, he applied for the Green Card lottery hoping to immigrate to the United States.
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But that means many are older when they immigrate, making them targets of the new proposal.
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He said his dream is to immigrate to the United Arab Emirates, where his family once lived.
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"And after 2014, about 95,000 Yazidi, they immigrate to Germany through a very dangerous way," she said.
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Before Canada changed its immigration laws in the 1960s, nonwhite people struggled to immigrate to the country.
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The Trump administration believes the migrants are exploiting asylum laws to immigrate illegally to the United States.
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Many migrants with visas face long backlogs to get permission to permanently immigrate, called a green card.
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Since pro-immigrationists think that people have a right to immigrate to another land if they so wish, and host countries have a duty to absorb them, they react with moral outrage when people's right to immigrate is violated, and when countries fail to perform their duty of absorption.
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A Reform convert would not qualify under the Israeli laws that give all Jews a right to immigrate to Israel if they choose; an American with a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother could immigrate, but would not be permitted to be legally marry a Jew once there.
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He also claimed that Trump had illegally left Germany, failing to notify authorities of his plan to immigrate.
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The program was created to help people from Ireland immigrate and get legal status in the United States.
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The British native attended St. Joseph's College in Blackpool but was determined to immigrate to the United States.
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But in the last three months, she said, most have come to immigrate elsewhere, with passports or without.
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There's a perception that it's easy to immigrate to Canada, he says, but the reality is more complicated.
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And after 85033, about 95 years — 95,000 years, Yazidi, they immigrate to Germany through a very dangerous way.
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Nonwhite immigrants still sense that reality when they risk their lives to immigrate to a white-majority America.
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Without that, my husband wouldn&apost have been able to immigrate, despite the fact that we were married.
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With this in mind, it should come as no surprise that so many people choose to immigrate illegally.
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Individuals who immigrate often embody qualities that are highly sought after by employers — bravery and adaptability, for starters.
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Under current law, he is not eligible to sponsor any extended family to immigrate to the United States.
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For a child to apply for a family to immigrate, that child must reach the age of 21.
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In 1937, Gretel Bergmann was able to obtain papers that allowed her to immigrate to the United States.
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Few Palestinians are looking to immigrate, since home is typically no more than a few hours' drive away.
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In exchange, Tokyo agreed to stop issuing passports to Japanese workers seeking to immigrate to the United States.
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Across the board, everyone is really steamed about the fact that Nick will not want to immigrate to Canada.
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In the last three months of 2015, more than 1,500 Cubans attempted to immigrate to the U.S. via raft.
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Populists argue that, if migrants from poor countries immigrate freely to rich ones, they will bankrupt the welfare state.
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At age 19643 he even tried to immigrate to America solely to be close to Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins.
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Chen was the first of his relatives to immigrate to the U.S. from Fujian, China, his relatives tell PEOPLE.
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Chen was the first of his relatives to immigrate to the U.S. from Fujian, China, his relatives told PEOPLE.
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The ancestors of most black Americans did not "immigrate" from Africa; the Middle Passage was not a leisurely cruise.
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It is home to the descendants of people who did not immigrate, but who were brought here by force.
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"In my own family story, some of the people who chose not to immigrate lost their lives," she said.
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She would have been able to immigrate under the proposed rules, though many of her co-workers would not.
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"Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States," a brochure for the event read, according to the Washington Post.
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First, we should loosen the numerical restrictions on immigration to allow for a greater number of relatives to immigrate.
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I hadn't thought of it until then, but her decision to immigrate alone changed the shape of our family.
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In Congress, Mr. Mrazek sponsored legislation allowing Vietnam-born children of American servicemen to immigrate to the United States.
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In this case, a mother and a daughter with virtually identical circumstances try to immigrate to the United States.
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In many ways, the process by which the US grants people visas to visit or immigrate is a black box.
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This ban applies to anyone from those countries visiting the U.S., not just people seeking asylum or looking to immigrate.
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One of his first actions was to team up with Mr Hunt to make it easier for medics to immigrate.
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The Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' policy on immigration has created confusion for those seeking to immigrate to the United States.
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Good public services make citizens happy, which causes more workers to immigrate but also places more demands on your economy.
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Critics of the draft rule believe it would effectively make it harder for lower- and middle-income people to immigrate.
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Few Jews make aliyah, or immigrate, anymore, and Israel no longer needs the immigration as much as it used to.
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This has real consequences — not just for Muslims who hope to immigrate to America later but for Muslims already here.
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Samuel Ferguson (the excellent C. Mingo Long), son of a slave, reminds Liberty that his forebears didn't immigrate by choice.
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And many braiders immigrate from East Africa, lacking the high school diploma or GED required to enroll in cosmetology school.
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I'm supposed to marry my American fiancé next month, but I really wanted to immigrate based on my own accomplishments.
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But in 2006, Canadian officials reported to the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. that Abdullah had applied to immigrate to Canada.
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Starting February 22.5, Nigerians will no longer be able to obtain visas allowing them to immigrate to the US permanently.
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Yet, though many of them are poor when they immigrate to America, successive generations are likely to be less so.
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Aside: President Trump's grandparents or his mother could not qualify to immigrate to the U.S. under the Cotton/Purdue proposal.
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Mr. Netanyahu sees little value in safeguarding Jewish communities outside Israel, since he would prefer that Jews immigrate to Israel.
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But their decision to immigrate to the States is not just a gamble to escape poverty in their home country.
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He made the life changing decision to immigrate with his wife and two children and start a new life in Canada.
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The Trump administration created a policy of 'zero tolerance' creating confusion for some people seeking to immigrate to the United States.
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Laws passed in 1917 and 1924 made it even harder for Asian and Middle Eastern Muslims to immigrate and become citizens.
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This ban would apply to anyone from those countries visiting the U.S., not just people seeking asylum or looking to immigrate.
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The site tells Americans, should Donald Trump win the US presidency, to immigrate to Cape Breton, the picturesque Nova Scotia island.
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Representatives from Kushner Companies encouraged wealthy Chinese citizens to "invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States" during last weekend's event.
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Today, the Cantonese population hovers around 3,000 residents, although a steady stream of predominantly Cantonese immigrants quietly continues to immigrate here.
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Her mother grew up fairly well off herself, until she had to flee Hitler's Germany in 1936 and immigrate to Palestine.
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"In order to immigrate, DV selectees must be admissible to the United States," a State Department information handout for applicants states.
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"Many Chinese want to immigrate to the U.S. [and having corporate name recognition] eases access for immigration to them," Bernstein said.
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Biplab Pal, above with his wife and daughter, said sanctuary policies would amount to an invitation for people to immigrate illegally.
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Alexander Vindman discussed his family's decision to immigrate to the U.S. from Ukraine during his opening statement in Tuesday's impeachment hearing.
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By the late 2628s, Congress members were open to the argument that it should be easier for white Europeans to immigrate.
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However, many white residents say that while it's difficult and expensive to immigrate legally, that's the way it should be done.
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"Skilled individuals will not wish to immigrate to the country if they may be cut off without warning from their spouses, grandparents, relatives, and friends — they will not pull up roots, incur significant economic risk, and subject their family to considerable uncertainty to immigrate to the United States in the face of this instability," the brief says.
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Our crazy immigration system makes it practically impossible for poor people without close family connections to legally immigrate to the United States.
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It also makes me feel uncomfortable and defensive of people who immigrate here and don't speak English as well, or at all.
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He called for mass-deportation and declared there will be no path for undocumented immigrants to become citizens unless they immigrate legally.
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Harambe's death occurred the same week in which 23,22016 people died attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to immigrate safely into Europe.
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At the end, for example, she speaks movingly about how America's national values motivated her family to immigrate to the United States.
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We can allow more people to move to places where there is already a good equilibrium: to immigrate to rich countries, effectively.
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He also addressed violent gang members, namely those from MS-13 who immigrate illegally to wreak their violence on legal U.S. residents.
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Allowing a seemingly endless chain of relatives to immigrate here only increases the potential for such corrupt and underhanded practices to continue.
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We could fix that by increasing the number of physicians, either by training more or allowing more to immigrate into the country.
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Scavino early in 2018 voiced his opposition to chain migration, by which families immigrate to a country in small groups over time.
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For many, conflict, human rights abuses and long-term unemployment are the norm, and are reasons to flee or try to immigrate.
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So, here's some perspective, by my back-of-envelope calculations: More than 20143 million foreigners immigrate to the United States each year.
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For one thing, many policymakers, including many Republicans, see allowing some family members to immigrate as an important factor in encouraging integration.
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If you want to immigrate to Desiigner's dictatorship, you'll need to start practicing your Fortnite skills — it's the national pastime of Desiignertopia.
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Let's also press "delete" on the program that allows 50,000 people to immigrate to the United States annually based on a lottery!
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Under the deal, however, the Japanese government continued to issue passports to citizens wanting to immigrate to Hawaii, then a U.S. territory.
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In 2000, it passed a law making it a little easier for people to immigrate legally to the US to be with relatives.
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I only had €28 with me and the police accused me of trying to immigrate because things were going badly in my country.
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But getting rid of national quotas made it harder for Europeans to immigrate to the US if they didn't already have job offers.
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Not only is it extremely difficult to immigrate legally to the United States, it's even more difficult to access benefits after doing so.
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Americans Jews immigrate to Israel and bring their cultural trappings, like basketball; Israeli goods are mainstays at kosher American supermarkets and Judaica stores.
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The only place where memories do not reach is South Dakota & so you, as so many have before you, immigrate to South Dakota.
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Money and class privilege got our family out of trouble in the past and made it possible to immigrate twice in two generations.
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Granting asylum should be limited to true political cases, Mr. Thumann said, with a clear separate law determining who can immigrate, and how.
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"Masha, Alex, and Fiona were born abroad before their families or they themselves personally chose to immigrate to the United States," Kent said.
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The government restricts the flow of people: it is virtually impossible to immigrate to China and the country takes in next to no refugees.
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She still has an uncle and cousins waiting to immigrate here; her grandmother was also planning to join them, but passed away last month.
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The Cuban missionary decided to immigrate to the United States, where he hopes to be a pastor at a church in Syracuse, New York.
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As food prices increased and economic conditions deteriorated, US Coast Guard interceptions of people from Haiti attempting to immigrate to our country also increased.
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He also has three US citizen children who, at the age of 21, could have petitioned for him to immigrate to the United States.
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It is implausible that Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the October 21990 truck attack in Manhattan, enabled 22 to immigrate to the United States.
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For example, Chinese immigrants in the United States are 12 times as likely to have graduated from college than Chinese who did not immigrate.
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America is the place that skilled engineers and technology entrepreneurs want to immigrate to, but where they are becoming less welcomed day by day.
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"If you're a really smart person and you want to immigrate to a great country that will welcome you, come to Canada!" she said.
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Finally, Trump wants to slash the State Department and foreign aid budgets and make it harder for people to immigrate to America, particularly Muslims.
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Congress should also make it easier for Afghans who worked with NATO forces and want to immigrate to the United States to do so.
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Trump has repeatedly accused the government of Mexico (and possibly other countries) of deliberately sending its worst people to immigrate to the United States.
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They won visas from the annual, 50,000-person lottery to immigrate to the U.S., but Trump's travel ban has blocked them from getting those visas.
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Interest in immigrating to Canada was strong, but fell off after election The interest among Americans to immigrate to Canada may have been sincere initially.
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It was that inhospitable environment that drove Ms. Shterenberg and her parents to immigrate to the United States in 1995 under the family reunification program.
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" Pence also highlighted how the 44 new American citizens "followed the law," adding that "you went through the process to immigrate into this great nation.
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Mr. Ishak applied to immigrate to every country on earth at the time of the project, and the responses, or lack thereof, inspired the work.
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A Quinnipiac University poll asks voters whether they think immigrants from certain countries deserve to immigrate to the U.S. more than those from other countries.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Without close family in the United States, Elly and her husband had few options for getting permission to immigrate to America from Iran.
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The President, in recent months, has indicated that he wants more people to legally immigrate to the US, receiving pushback from advocates of reduced migration.
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In the immediate, we have to do something — even if we lose in the courts, we still gotta do something to stop the incentive [to immigrate].
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Carrasco sees the six months he's allowed to be in the country without a visa as an opportunity to find a chance to immigrate legally here.
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He said jihadi-minded brothers would immigrate into the United States, taking advantage of the welfare system to support themselves while they spread their jihadi message.
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With 20 percent of Canada's population already born elsewhere, the country now offers a startup visa to encourage international entrepreneurs to immigrate, with permanent residence status.
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Here are the individual countries broken down: Iran -- 19,801North Korea -- 20163Syria -- 5,411Libya -- 1,2909Yemen -- 2560,2000Somalia -- 22016Venezuela -- 265,2435 The picture is quite different for those seeking to immigrate.
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" When asked directly to think about legal immigration, 62 percent of Republicans said that the U.S. allows too many people "to immigrate here from other countries.
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Rabbi Hager could not get a visa to Palestine, but he and his father-in-law were able to immigrate to the United States in 1948.
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Otherwise America will have to merge with other nations to create a UBI everywhere—since everyone would want to immigrate to America for the free money.
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It is implausible that Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the attack in October in Manhattan, enabled 22 to 2000 people to immigrate to the United States.
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The purpose of the visit was to get all the paperwork in order for his wife and 6-month-old son to immigrate to New York.
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German immigration laws allowed anyone from the Soviet Union with a Jewish parent to immigrate, no questions asked — a kind of reparations for Germany's past sins.
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In some cases, the pages and their associated websites spread false or misleading information, or promote visa advisory services to people wanting to immigrate to Canada.
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It gave most Cubans who reached American soil the automatic right to immigrate, while those intercepted at sea were sent back home, often to try again.
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Add to this the fathers who immigrate to the United States for work without their families and become nonresidential fathers in order to send needed remittances home.
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V.R. Dowell, Jr.When people immigrate to the United States, their microbiomes quickly transition to a U.S.-associated microbiome, according to research published today in the journal Cell.
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So, now Saudi opening up or it can be seen as "selling" this PR application is an additional access for people who want to immigrate to there.
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After generations of turmoil, the bolthole mentality runs deep among China's rich – by one estimate, 47 per cent of rich mainlanders plan to immigrate within five years .
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As many as 7 million Mexicans, for example, are predicted to immigrate to the U.S. over the next 70 years as climate change reduces their crop yields.
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For example, one study estimates that climate-related declines in crop yields will force 7 million Mexicans to immigrate to the U.S. within the next 70 years.
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The policy, which would have taken effect Sunday, was introduced last month and would primarily affect people attempting to immigrate to the U.S. to join family members.
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An alien's receipt of public benefits comes at taxpayer expense and availability of public benefits may provide an incentive for aliens to immigrate to the United States.
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As someone who has studied European Jews' attempts to escape Nazi persecution and immigrate to the U.S., the administration's evocation of the public charge clause is chilling.
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According to the formula set out by law, countries that have had more than 50,000 natives immigrate to the US in the previous five years are ineligible.
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Salem and I never particularly wanted to immigrate (in my case, return) to the United States, but it was nice to know that it was an option.
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Reyes has not been able to get permission to immigrate to the U.S. and Houston is unable to got to Mexico, the reason for which is unclear.
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"I'm no Boy Scout," Representative Raymond F. Lederer, also of Philadelphia, said when he accepted $21977,21994 to help a sheikh immigrate to escape trouble in his homeland.
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The Guardian reported that Italian-born suspect Youssef Zaghba told Italian police, "I'm going to be a terrorist," yet was allowed to immigrate to the United Kingdom.
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However, in the late-1980s a severe recession in Ireland resulted in a growing desire on the part of Irish citizens to immigrate to the United States.
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During his presidential campaign, he said many of the desperate Mexicans attempting to immigrate to the U.S. were rapists — a claim he doubled down on in 2018.
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It led to a surge in recruitment to the jihadist cause, attracting thousands of young Muslims to "immigrate" to a militant utopia slickly realized in propaganda films.
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An assortment of individuals migrate, immigrate, parade, or flee in a continuous procession reminiscent of the Parthenon frieze that wraps the entablature of the ancient Greek temple.
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If a public figure wanting to immigrate to America had publicly said these many hateful things about Christians or Jews, would you want them living in our country?
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We're blunting the potential of so many budding scientists who may want to go into these professions and who may want to immigrate here and do great work.
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The only lethal terrorist to immigrate to the United States as an adult and conduct an attack shortly after arriving is Tashfeen Malik, who was born in Pakistan.
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" He went on to say that he wanted farm workers to continue to immigrate to the US. "We also want farm workers to be able to come in.
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" Trump has also attacked Mexicans, branding those who immigrate to the US "rapists and criminals" and proposing a wall along the border "to be paid for by Mexico.
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The fact that the jihadis, often Syrian-trained, are a minority, and that many Muslims who immigrate to Europe are leading successful and integrated lives, is little consolation.
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Despite finding a job in China, Namata began preparing the documents necessary to immigrate to the United States, still the final destination she had her sights set on.
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Trump, on the other hand, has repeatedly accused the government of Mexico (and possibly other countries) of deliberately sending its worst people to immigrate to the United States.
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Then he won the green card lottery, which meant he was one of the lucky ones who could escape the repression of home and immigrate legally to America.
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There are no official figures on how many immigrate in this way, but some estimates say the number is many thousands higher than those applying through official routes.
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The Trump administration is planning to cap the number of global refugees allowed to immigrate to the United States at as low as 40,000 for fiscal year 0003.
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Readers debate who deserves to get a family visa to immigrate to the U.S., citing as examples their own families' stories and the stories of families they know.
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Although he wanted to immigrate to British-controlled Palestine after the war, his wife and her parents had arranged to go to the United States under a sponsor.
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The program grants permanent residency in the United States to those who are willing to immigrate and invest $500,000 in a business that creates at least 1753 jobs.
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Immigrant rights advocates have argued that Central America's violent and impoverished conditions force mothers to immigrate to the United States and that they should be given asylum status.
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There might be more people outside the U.S. who want to immigrate to America than there are people living here today – obviously more than we could suddenly take in.
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But it is of limited help with immigrate versus emigrate, where the n of in- and the x of ex- have disappeared to make the words easier to pronounce.
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Trump made the claim that Saipov helped 23 people immigrate to the US through family-based or "chain" migration in November — federal authorities were not able to confirm this.
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The entire point of refugee resettlement, as it's traditionally existed, is that people are allowed to immigrate based on how much they've suffered (or are at risk of suffering).
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A large percentage of the people granted the right to immigrate here should be determined under a system similar to Canada's, where skills and talent are the key factors.
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The 2016 Race In the real world, demographic change is gradual: Every day, the country becomes a tad more diverse as babies are born, people immigrate, and others die.
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Three-quarters of Americans polled think the country an immigrant is from shouldn't matter in deciding whether they deserve to immigrate to the U.S., according to a new poll.
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The bigger obstacle, though, isn't qualifying to immigrate — it's that the number of hypothetically qualified family-based immigrants greatly exceeds the number of slots available for immigrants each year.
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Constantin was ultimately the youngest of thousands of children taken from their parents under a policy that was meant to deter families hoping to immigrate to the United States.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Sunday about the naturalist and philanthropist Robert Goelet misstated the surname of the first person in Mr. Goelet's family to immigrate to the United States.
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The existing caps on overall annual legal immigration are simply not designed to accommodate the number of people seeking to immigrate to the US legally and obtain green cards.
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B-2 visitor visas lack consideration for family reunion, resulting in an unnecessarily high denial rate because its presumed that applicants with family members in the U.S. intend to immigrate.
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The word is out: if you want to cut the long line of people waiting legally to immigrate to America, just sneak across the southern border and ask for asylum.
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The family of Anne Frank attempted to immigrate to the U.S. in the 28503s and '22019s but was blocked due to America's strict immigration policies, according to The Associated Press.
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But in practice, with so little oversight over whether EB-5 visa holders are actually creating jobs, the "invest $22009,22016 and immigrate to the United States" pitch isn't exactly wrong.
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President Trump is planning to kill a program that would have encouraged startup company founders to immigrate to the United States, according to a draft executive order viewed by Axios.
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Humayun Khan with the slightest trace of a wink to his or her followers, and then, once elected, close the door to any Muslim who wished to immigrate to America.
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You've spoken about the fact that your family was able to immigrate here from India when you were young and that's the reason you've had the particular life you've had.
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In December 2011, about a third of white Americans who would go on to vote for Mr. Obama believed that it should be harder to immigrate to the United States.
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"I think this home is meant for a foreign family," said Mr. Zauberman, who grew up in France and spent many long visits in Israel before deciding to formally immigrate.
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Critics of DACA have argued that it signals the U.S. is willing to grant amnesty to those that immigrate illegally, which could feed into the larger issue of border control.
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Trump has repeatedly called for an end to visa lotteries and chain migration, which allows immigrants already in the U.S. to sponsor family members who wish to immigrate as well.
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Chain or family migration is a system that allows U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to petition the government to allow their close relatives to immigrate to the United States.
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In his speech at the church, Pence drew a contrast between the Venezuelans who have fled economic and political turmoil and people who have attempted to immigrate to the United States.
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The real challenge, Vaughan said, is to reform an asylum system that she argues has been badly abused by foreigners who have no legitimate path to immigrate to the United States.
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The Obama administration will soon expand a program to allow Central American children and their families with "legitimate refugee claims" to legally immigrate to the United States, an official said Tuesday.
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And if educated people can build good lives for themselves in their home countries, they are less likely to immigrate to countries struggling today to deal with high levels of immigration.
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By increasing the number of employer sponsored visas, both permanent and temporary, the bill would have dramatically reduced the incentives to immigrate illegally while meeting the needs of the labor market.
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He announced that this aid will be revoked since those countries have not been taking the appropriate steps to keep their citizens from leaving to illegally immigrate to the United States.
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He said he couldn't defend helping the Dreamers "to people waiting in line the right way" to immigrate to the U.S. The House defeated a more conservative immigration alternative last week.
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However, the film is honest in its portrayal of the violence that can spur people to immigrate, the difficult journeys they face, and the hardships that await in their new homes.
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It's a significant step in the construction of what's become known as Trump's "invisible wall," the methodical overhaul of policies that's dramatically changing who can immigrate legally to the United States.
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It would modernize the outdated family immigration system and reduce the backlog of family-based visas that make some family members of U.S. citizens wait more than 10 years to immigrate.
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Since taking office, he also has tried to bar Iranians from being allowed to visit or immigrate to the United States through a visa ban that targets six Muslim-majority countries.
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"Under long-standing federal law, those seeking to immigrate to the United States must show they can support themselves financially," Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement to Reuters.
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These same worries, of course, have also played out in the U.S.; hence, the president's newly Supreme Court-approved five-year moratorium on welfare use for those hoping to permanently immigrate here.
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Sharing a picture of their performance on Twitter, U2 took aim at Trump's infamous "s—hole" counties comment which he made in regards to whom should be allowed to immigrate to America.
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"I'm a green card holder and I married here after coming on an artist visa, so I recognize how it's very hard to immigrate," even when it's not so tragic, she added.
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If we want more doctors, there are probably 1 million top-shelf physicians from around the world who would immigrate to the United States yesterday if we gave them the go-ahead.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 established the current consular control system, under which any alien seeking to immigrate to the United States must obtain a visa from a U.S. consular officer abroad.
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Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Ireland, Singapore and the United Kingdom all have startup or entrepreneurship visas that encourage individuals eager to set up a business to immigrate to their respective countries.
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She had heard about Jewish European scientists attempting to leave Germany and realized she could help them immigrate to America on the condition that they collaborate with her on inventions and patents.
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It would be as bureaucratically easy to implement: If you have a passport from a banned country, and don't have a permission slip from Attorney General Rudy Giuliani, then you can't immigrate.
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The number of visas issued to foreigners abroad looking to immigrate to the United States has declined by about 25 percent, to 462,143 in the 2019 fiscal year from 617,752 in 2016.
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Hausmann had tried to immigrate with his wife to the United States, but was unsuccessful, despite Moholy-Nagy's invitation to teach at the Institute of Design in Chicago (aka the New Bauhaus).
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Mr. Ameen did not immigrate directly to the United States after the approval of his application, but instead went to Iraq to commit the murder less than three weeks later, prosecutors said.
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The rule would affect people seeking to immigrate to the United States permanently and others who are in the country on temporary visas — including students and workers — who seek to stay permanently.
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The number of visas issued to foreigners abroad looking to immigrate to the United States has declined by about 25 percent, to 462,422 in the 2019 fiscal year from 617,752 in 0003.
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When President Obama's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2015 began handing out work-permits to the spouses of H-1B guestworkers applying to permanently immigrate, we took the agency to court.
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Starting February 22, immigrants from Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea, and Nigeria will no longer be able to obtain visas allowing them to immigrate to the US permanently, according to a senior administration official.
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Citizens of every country covered by the ban can't obtain diversity visas and all but those from Tanzania and Sudan can't get visas that allow them to immigrate to the US permanently.
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Because a US citizen can't actually apply for her parent to immigrate until she turns 21, this raises questions about who, exactly, would be able to apply for a visa on these grounds.
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The legislation does not increase the number of skilled workers who would be allowed to immigrate, but introduces a "points system" based on age, education, profession, awards, investment capacity and English language proficiency.
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The two made a pact to immigrate to the United States in the mid-1800s, where they launched the now iconic pharmaceutical company in 1849, with a deworming agent as its first product.
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"Often in the US, people talk about the healthy immigrant effect — that people who are able to immigrate here are in better health and have better health outcomes than non-immigrants," she said.
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White Americans were divided on these questions: 48 percent wanted to make it easier to immigrate or keep it the same, while 44 percent wanted to make it harder (the rest were unsure).
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Simply doing this without changing our nation's immigration laws will encourage low-skilled parents from around the world to illegally immigrate to this country with their small children in hopes of obtaining citizenship.
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Sixty-two percent of voters said that whether a person speaks English should be a factor in deciding if they should be allowed to legally immigrate to the U.S., according to the poll.
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McMaster worked closely with the Iraqi man during Battle of Tal Afar in northern Iraq in 2005, the official said, and subsequently sponsored his family to immigrate to the United States and become citizens.
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Under the new rules, those who are granted that status will be allowed to immigrate to the United States with unmarried siblings who are over 21 and a related caregiver, such as a grandparent.
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It could also increase pressure for expansions of visas for medical professionals to immigrate to the U.S. The systemic nature of this problem could also require a more expansive Medicare benefit for the elderly.
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The legislation, if passed, would substantially change the current immigration system by eliminating a per-country cap that advocates say effectively makes it harder to immigrate from a bigger country versus a smaller country.
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Experts thought that, with so much meat on the hoof, carnivores of all stripes would surely immigrate from surrounding areas of their own accord, but predator rebound has proved spotty — or not spotty enough.
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Experts thought that, with so much meat on the hoof, carnivores of all stripes would surely immigrate from surrounding areas of their own accord, but predator rebound has proved spotty — or not spotty enough.
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Citizenship would also give children "priority for jobs in US government, public companies, and large corporations" and would also make it easier for the parents to eventually immigrate to the US, the indictment says.
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NHS managers have been complaining for a long time that an annual cap on the number of non-EU skilled workers who can immigrate to Britain was making it hard for them to fill positions.
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Kushner family in Beijing: 'Invest $500,000 and immigrate' to US After the attention over the weekend, the Kushners' company apologized Monday, saying it did to intend to mention Jared to appeal to would-be investors.
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That deal actually collapsed after the White House added to its demands, calling for changes to other legal immigration programs that would have lowered the number of people able to immigrate to the United States.
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And, if you, a colleague or loved one is looking to immigrate, she also has written up an article for Extra Crunch that breaks down the wide range of visas that you can choose from.
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That is exactly the kind of visa that allowed Mr. David to immigrate from Guyana in 22011, and that helped bring other members of his family into the country, too, as recently as last month.
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At the time, there was no way for them to immigrate to the United States, so he and his family fled to Jordan, where they waited with faint hopes that America would open its doors.
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"Tio" and "tia" may want to immigrate to pursue a business opportunity, which might in turn provide resources for nieces and nephews and other family members in both the United States and the home country.
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That said, the winner will probably be Ennemis Intérieurs, which tackles a very contemporary problem — the hurdles noncitizens have to go through to immigrate to the West — and does so in searing, deeply troubling fashion.
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This tax reform effort comes at a time when we're making it significantly more difficult for those educated abroad to immigrate to the US and we're considering new tariffs on imported technology and manufacturing materials.
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"For example, research has shown that people who immigrate from a low-trust nation such as Turkey to a high-trust nation in Northern Europe will rapidly show greater trust in people in general," he argues.
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As both countries have made it harder for people to immigrate to them, the flow of new arrivals from Vietnam is now a trickle, mostly consisting of people reuniting with relatives who are already in Europe.
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When people immigrate to America from places like Asia or Latin America, subsequent generations have higher rates of so-called Western diseases, like metabolic and inflammatory diseases, compared to those who stayed in their native countries.
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It then lets them apply to immigrate to the U.S. "Sorry, this is a private event," said a man stopping journalists from entering a function room on Sunday afternoon at the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai.
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The site is a timeline of Trump's scattered statements about a proposed ban on Muslims from entering the U.S., which has evolved into a proposal to institute an "extreme vetting" practice for anyone attempting to immigrate.
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The program is one of the main ways that Africans are able to immigrate to the US; about 24 percent of African immigrants are admitted through the diversity visa, compared to 5 percent of all immigrants.
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"Engineers wanting to immigrate to Canada from places like India are normal, but I've never seen anything close to the numbers of candidates from the U.S." said Roy Pereira, CEO of automated virtual assistant company Zoom.ai.
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He formed a consortium of Chinese investors who transferred more than $3 million for the recycling company, convinced by Mr. Oei's promises that the project was backed by the government and would allow him to immigrate.
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Contradicting the Arab view of Jews as purely a religious group rather than also a national one, Mr. Abbas acknowledged that what motivated Jews to immigrate to Israel was a mixture of religious and national aspirations.
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To immigrate requires a willingness to pick up one's life and move, often at great personal and financial risk, to a different country, with a different culture, and often a different language — a profoundly entrepreneurial act.
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Titled "Born the Hard Way," the ad tells the story of how the Anheuser-Busch brewing company first came to be — a story that starts with Adolphus Busch leaving Germany in 1857 to immigrate to America.
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"The worsening of climate change effects around the world, particularly in low-income countries, may increase the number of people wanting to immigrate to the United States," the Government Accountability Office wrote in a report released Thursday.
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As a result, local lawmakers have proposed that Hong Kong try to assert greater authority over permit approvals, including a cut to overall numbers and a requirement that applicants prove financial independence before being allowed to immigrate.
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They do show that for one particular class of people who are supposed to be considered for waivers — applicants seeking to immigrate to live with close family members — the standards are a lot more restrictive than advertised.
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After all, the current president once suggested that the Mexicans who illegally immigrate to the US are rapists and spent a year trying to delegitimize America's first black president by falsely claiming he wasn't actually born here.
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MONTREAL — A French woman whose desire to immigrate to Quebec was upended because she wrote a chapter of her doctoral thesis in English will receive a document necessary to remain in the province, she said on Monday.
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Now the Trump administration is debating whether to rescind the waivers that have allowed Raj, and tens of thousands of others, to immigrate to the United States in the past decade (See graphic on waivers: tmsnrt.rs/2oPssIo).
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These operatives have been able to "hide in plain sight" among a large Lebanese ex-patriot community who began to immigrate to the area from Lebanon in the 1950s in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War.
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This is less about who we allow to legally immigrate to the United States - it is about how we prevent Americans, including natural-born Americans and legal immigrants, from getting access to terrorist content and becoming radicalized.
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In the 1960s, the iconoclastic Conservative Enoch Powell railed against allowing subjects of the former British Empire to immigrate to Britain — a legacy of imperial overreach that he believed was endangering the culture and heritage of England.
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The savage assault and her outspoken defiance of female victimization made headlines in Bangladesh and Canada, galvanizing public support that prompted the Canadian government to allow Ms. Monzur to immigrate with her daughter and parents in 2011.
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The diversity visa program should also be preserved because, for many people across the globe, a relative or a neighbor who has managed to immigrate to the United States is their only authentic connection with the country.
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It only took a few hours for Mendelsohn to trace Scavino's roots in America back to 1904, when, she tweeted, his great-grandfather's brother became the first of several Scavinos to immigrate from Italy in very similar fashion.
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"Under long-standing federal law, those seeking to immigrate to the United States must show they can support themselves financially," Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement in a DHS news release outlining the proposal.
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" But Joseph Bondy, Parnas' lawyer, said that Parnas had won a visa lottery to immigrate to the United States from the Soviet Union, and is "a proud citizen of the United States of America and continues to be.
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The independent, nonpartisan quality of our institutions is one of the biggest reasons so many people want to immigrate to America and why some people are even ready to build rafts out of milk cartons to get here.
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Their families were being hunted down and killed to deter anyone from cooperating with us and those people badly wanted to immigrate to the US and at that time — the '07-'08 period — and we were not able to.
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Chain migration is not a legal term but has been used to refer to the act of a legal permanent resident sponsoring family members to immigrate to the US, a move anyone with a valid green card can make.
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What's happening at the border is the result of a regional crisis in which — if current rates continue — close to 1 percent of the entire population of Guatemala and Honduras will attempt to immigrate to the US this year.
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Adding to this, the recent deaths of two children who were coming with their families to immigrate to the United States while in custody of Customs and Border Patrol has continued to shine a negative light on the administration.
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Details: The policy, which was meant to deter families hoping to immigrate to the U.S., began nearly a year before the administration would acknowledge it publicly in May 2018, and the total number of those affected is still unknown.
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It is true that the guy who killed eight innocent people with a truck in Manhattan was a product of the visa program, a program that was started to give more Irish and Italians a chance to legally immigrate.
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That sentiment -- or, to give Cuccinelli the benefit of the doubt, the way he expressed himself so poorly -- has significant echoes of comments made by President Donald Trump himself regarding the people seeking to immigrate to the United States.
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In a tweet posted as the president returned from his trip the day before to the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump declared that the U.S. desires to see "talented and highly skilled people" immigrate to the U.S. and pursue careers.
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It tracks the painful personal story of Ms. Gopee and her mother as they attempt to immigrate to America from Trinidad and Tobago in the early 2000s, after their travel documents were stolen, she said, by a family member.
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It's a price I would pay a hundred times over because one of my father's greatest gifts to me, and indirectly to his grandchildren, is this: His decision to immigrate has allowed me to be the parent he could never be.
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He will have to ask Congress to pass laws that would limit legal immigration, and he will find that there are a lot of people on both sides of the aisle who favor continuing to allow people to immigrate legally.
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TV's "Rising," when asked by host Buck Sexton whether the fundamental principle of the U.S. immigration system is to cater to the aspirations of foreigners wanting to immigrate to the U.S., or to the people who are already American citizens.
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Without an exemption, members of Kurdish groups that battled Saddam Hussein's forces in Iraq, Hmong groups who fought alongside U.S. troops in Vietnam, or some Cubans who fought Fidel Castro's regime would not be allowed to immigrate to the United States.
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The history of a group of people brought here as slaves, for whom the entire American racial caste system was built, is necessarily going to be very different from the experience of a group who chose to immigrate to this country.
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This is how more than half of women immigrate to the US. (In fact, it's most likely what permitted First Lady Melania Trump's Slovenian parents to emigrate to and become permanent residents.) Miller and other top officials want to change that.
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Gomez's parents are waiting for their applications for citizenship to be approved so they can petition for him to immigrate legally; he's crossing his fingers that that happens before January 20, but is realizing he might need to make other plans.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of Yemenis and Iranians who won the chance to immigrate to the United States sued the U.S. State Department on Friday for not processing their visa applications after President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban was reinstated.
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In June the House defeated a plan by Representative Bob Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia, that would have restricted legal immigration through the family reunification program so that only the spouses and minor children of American citizens could immigrate — barring grandparents.
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The categories that do create chains are strictly capped: 23,400 married children of US citizens (plus their own spouses and minor children) are allowed to immigrate each year, and 67,3.463 adult siblings of US citizens (plus spouses and minor children).
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If Congress makes it harder for relatives to immigrate, "Where are all these workers going to come from?" asked Patricia Will, the founder of Belmont Village, a Houston-based network of upscale facilities that employs 4,4063 people in several states.
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In a bipartisan meeting with members of Congress, Trump reportedly referred to nations including Haiti, El Salvador, and a number of African nations as "shithole countries," and lamented why the US wasn't seeing more people immigrate from places like Norway.
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Not only are they more likely to have graduated than those who did not immigrate from their countries of origin, but they are more likely to have graduated from college than the U.S. mean — what we refer to as "hyper-selectivity".
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And still later it gave preference to immigrants from Northern and Western Europe, making it difficult for people from other parts of the world to immigrate to the U.S. But the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 changed all of that.
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Cultural accomplishments like these are what drew me to immigrate to Israel in the first place; a country that takes its behavior seriously and strives for honest self-reflection despite the pain accompanying it is a nation that could survive anything.
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People immigrate for positive, constructive reasons — to reunite their families, to give their children the kinds of life opportunities that they could not dream of in their countries of origin, or for the very freedoms that Americans claim to cherish.
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Third, let's get rid of "per-country quotas" for talented immigrants, which makes it take way longer for highly educated people to immigrate to the United States from countries like India, China and the Philippines than for people from other countries.
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The department should prioritize consular functions and restore visa processing in Havana; end the practice where Cubans seeking visas to immigrate to the United States, or simply visit family for important life events, must make visa applications in third countries.
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Trump has pledged to tighten immigration further by moving away from a system that historically allowed foreigners with family in America to immigrate to the U.S. in favor of merit-based migration in which foreigners with specific skills are given preference.
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The Trump administration laid out its case against a Senate bill that would sanction Turkey for purchasing Russian-made defense systems and help Syrian Kurdish refugees immigrate to the U.S. in a State Department document obtained by The Daily Beast.
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The draft rules are a sharp departure from current guidelines, which have been in place since 1999 and specifically bar authorities from considering such non-cash benefits in deciding a person's eligibility to immigrate to the United States or stay in the country.
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A processing backlog means it can take anywhere from five to 25 years or more, depending on the country and the type of family member, for the government to process a visa requests that would allow just one close relative to immigrate.
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It is estimated that 90 percent of people who were deported from the United States try to immigrate again within days, said Mauro Verzeletti, a Brazilian priest who runs the Pastoral Center for Migrants, which provides shelters here and in Mexico for immigrants.
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While HHS has traditionally had custody over unaccompanied minors who immigrate to the U.S. alone, the agency has been overwhelmed in recent months by the influx of children who the government separated from their parents as part of the zero tolerance policy.
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Again and again, Miranda emphasizes that this version of US history is being told by those other immigrants — the ones who, as the show notes, "get the job done," and the ones who had no choice about whether to immigrate at all.
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At the time, Law said, "'old seed' immigrant groups were being shut out by newer groups from Asia and Latin America": The program was created by powerful and well placed Italian and Irish American Senators and Reps to help their co-ethnics immigrate.
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"The White House is using Dreamers to mask their underlying xenophobic, isolationist, and un-American policies, which will harm millions of immigrants living in the United States and millions of others who want to legally immigrate and contribute to our country," she said.
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Since the wait times for most of the family immigration categories are so long, however, many veterans who had petitioned their family members still faced decades long waits for their relatives to be approved for green cards to immigrate to the United States.
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"She has allowed millions of people, maybe hundreds of millions of people, to identify with persecution at the worst level," said Richard Breitman, a professor emeritus at American University who has written about the family's attempts to immigrate to the United States.
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But they weren't able to immigrate through Ellis Island, for reasons they can't quite remember — perhaps because of financial turmoil preceding the 1929 stock market crash, or because of limits set a few years earlier on the number of immigrants from certain countries.
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Still, there are enough people who want to immigrate to the US that the 1.1 millions spots would be filled even if this dead-on-arrival proposal did happen, according to David Bier, a policy analyst at Cato Institute who specializes in immigration.
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It will be on immigrants seeking to get green cards so they can immigrate to be with their families — a group that accounted for more than 40 percent of all green cards (for new immigrants and immigrants already in the US) in 2016.
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"I got larceny in my blood — I'll take it in a goddamn minute," Representative John W. Jenrette Jr. of South Carolina said when asked if he would take money to introduce a bill to let a wealthy Arab immigrate to the United States.
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But he did not complete his master's degree there; he and his brother, Alexander, applied to leave Russia in the late 1970s as part of a program that allowed Russian Jews to immigrate to Israel if they could prove they had relatives there.
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"They definitely have immigration tools at their legal discretion to allow people from the Bahamas to immigrate to the United States," said Leon Rodriguez, who served as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services during the administration of Barack Obama, Trump's Democratic predecessor.
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Louise Carron, Executive Director of the Center for Art Law, told Hyperallergic in an email that the idea for the Clinic arose in 2018 when her organization noticed an increase in requests for assistance from artists seeking to immigrate to the United States.
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Which categories of people were banned varied by country: for some countries (like Syria) the ban applied to all would-be immigrants and visa holders, while for others (like Somalia) it only banned people seeking to immigrate to the US for good.
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Trump has been working with advisers on a proposal to boost visas for highly skilled workers seeking to immigrate to the United States and cut back on other types of visas - a plan unlikely to pass Congress ahead of the November 2020 presidential election.
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The Trump administration's proposal is a sharp departure from current guidelines, which have been in place since 1999 and specifically bar authorities from considering such non-cash benefits in deciding a person's eligibility to immigrate to the United States or stay in the country.
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And more recently, in 2014, a Facebook page encouraging Israelis to immigrate to Berlin due to the lower cost of living cited the disparity in grocery prices, including the Milky, which cost four to five times as much in Israel as it did in Berlin.
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The President has targeted foreign nationals coming to the United States from eight countries, including Somalia, in his 2017 "travel ban" executive order, which placed varying levels of restrictions on people attempting to immigrate from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Somalia and Yemen.
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Of course, not all foreign workers want to immigrate to the U.S. Especially in industries with large seasonal variations in employment, including agriculture and hospitality, small businesses are likely looking to hire temporary workers who intend to leave the U.S. after their work is done.
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As much as media elites want to pretend otherwise, this common-sense policy approach with changing our immigration system and building a wall would protect American citizens and make America stronger by enticing the best workers in the world to immigrate by modernizing the system.
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When Congress plans for the costs of the country's Social Security needs, lawmakers rely upon demographic projection about the population's future: the number of children expected to be born, the number of people expected to die, and the number of people expected to immigrate.
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When people talk about the "visa backlog," this is what they mean: In January 2018, for example, the US government will start processing applications for F4 visas (the siblings of US citizens) who first petitioned to let them immigrate on June 22, 22015, or earlier.
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Last year, Nicola, who was born in Saudi Arabia where his father still works as a mechanical engineer, was refused a US visitor's visa that had been processed through Nairobi because authorities believed he was trying immigrate, not visit, and that he'd misrepresented himself.
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And on Wednesday, the White House embraced reducing the number of people who can immigrate to the country legally, as one of the president's senior aides ripped into a reporter on live television for revealing his "cosmopolitan bias" by questioning the fairness of the proposal.
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There's no reliable way to predict criminality, terroristic leanings, or likelihood of contributing to society—especially not at a scale feasible for everyone seeking to immigrate to the US.Gizmodo has reached out to IBM for comment and will update this post if and when they respond.
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According to a report from the Congressional Research Service, at that time a growing number of Argentines were using the program as a way to illegally immigrate to the United States, staying past the 90-day limit as the South American country faced a devastating economic crisis.
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The Washington Post's Aaron Blake comments on the dangers of Time's cover in light of this recent news: The image is a sad one, but it is of a rather standard occurrence at the border: A mother and her daughter attempted to immigrate illegally and were apprehended.
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The interview is part of the process of filing for an I-130 application, the first step a US citizen takes to help a noncitizen relative immigrate to the US. Calderon was brought to the US by her parents from Guatemala when she was 3 years old.
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Mariette Monpierre's documentary centers on two women who emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Guadeloupe, a cluster of French islands hundreds of miles away, and their struggles in raising their younger children there and finding a legal way for their older, Dominican-born children to immigrate.
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Constantin Mutu was the youngest of thousands of children taken from their parents under a Trump administration policy to deter families hoping to immigrate to the U.S. After his family was detained at the border with Mexico, Constantin was placed with a foster family in Michigan.
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But the commission says that from 2009 to 2013, Mr. Oei told investors that the project was approved by the British Columbia government (it was not) and that their investments would give Chinese citizens the right to immigrate to Canada, as well as shower them with profits.
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When a group of undocumented Irish immigrants lobbied for a visa category that would make it possible for people to immigrate without family members in the U.S. to sponsor them, Congress created several temporary lotteries in the late 28503s and early 22019s that explicitly favored the Irish.
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A 2011 pre-election survey that Vavreck and her co-authors cite shows that a third of white voters who backed Obama believed "illegal immigrants are mostly a drain on society," while slightly higher percentages held unfavorable views of Muslims and endorsed making it harder to immigrate.
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Similarly, back in March, senior staff members at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services were told that, by year's end, the agency would shut down its international division, which assists overseas applicants applying to immigrate to the United States, to redirect resources to the border crisis.
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Similarly, back in March, senior staff members at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services were told that, by year's end, the agency would shut down its international division, which assists overseas applicants applying to immigrate to the United States, to redirect resources to the border crisis.
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And it would cut family-based immigration by 60 percent from current levels, while prohibiting US citizens and green card holders from sponsoring their parents, adult children, or siblings to immigrate to the US. None of these provisions are directly related to the fate of DACA.
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The Washington Post attended a presentation delivered by Nicole Kushner Meyer, Jared Kushner's sister, telling a room of wealthy Chinese investors in Beijing that for a $236,000 investment they could immigrate to the United States — namely, to a New Jersey luxury apartment complex the family was developing.
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Per the administration's proposal, people who immigrate legally could be denied citizenship or a green card if they or members of their household ever used the the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare; supplemental nutrition assistance, better known as SNAP; children's health insurance (CHIP); or other social programs.
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Just recently, Denmark's Foreign Minister Inger Støjberg posted ads in Middle Eastern newspapers urging potential immigrants to stay away—a searing contrast to a country that, in the late 1960s, actually actively invited workers from Turkey, Yugoslavia, and Pakistan to immigrate and help fill thousands of vacant jobs.
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It mandates that families who immigrate illegally must be kept together; it authorizes new temporary shelters, doubles the number of federal immigration judges and provides for expedited processing of asylum cases to ensure cases are decided promptly and families don't live in detention facilities for longer than necessary.
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After two days of lively and sometimes even argumentative discussions, I wanted students to think deeply about what life might be like living in Mexico, why people from Mexico immigrate here, why some people come here illegally, and why our nation is having difficulties in making decisions about immigration.
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The avocado boom has caused environmental damage — some of Michoacán's pine forests have been thinned out for avocado orchards — but it has been good for Americans gorging on guacamole in wintertime and Mexican farmers fending off the urge to join the drug trade or immigrate to the United States.
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My parents had survived war and dictatorship before the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 allowed more non-Europeans to immigrate to the United States, and they overcompensated for the austerity of their childhoods by allowing me to consume any food I wanted, with a side of guilt trip.
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The country caps were intended to ensure that there was diversity of nationality among those allowed to immigrate to the US. But they have been denounced in recent years as discriminatory toward nations like India and China, which face much longer green card backlogs than any other country.
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For Lee's main characters — a family of poor Koreans who immigrate to Japan just before World War II — pachinko offers a means of survival: Pachinko parlors are one of the few places they can find employment as foreigners, and where they eventually manage to eke out a comfortable existence.
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Today, 20 years after my first time meeting my prima, she is still my best friend, and it is all thanks to my abuela's commitment to making sure that her granddaughters felt included, and to making sure that my mom, her daughter, felt like her choice to immigrate had paid of.
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It shielded her from being deported and allowed her to work legally in the US—but it also protected her from her abusive father, who had forced her to immigrate to the US when she was seven and later confined her to his Alabama house unless she was at work.
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Trump's National Security Strategy claims that "chain migration" is a problem for national security, but there's nothing inherent to the way someone is allowed to immigrate to the US that makes it harder for the US to catch would-be terrorists — that is, if anything, a failure of the screening process.
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" Peter Dutton, Australia's minister of Home Affairs, has expressed the intention to do something similar; in March, 2018, he announced that, owing to the "horrific circumstances" faced by white South Africans, his department would give "special attention" to any of them seeking to immigrate to a "civilized country like ours.
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For many Africans, it's the only way they can immigrate to the US. It has also stripped citizens of Sudan and Liberia of Temporary Protected Status, a protection allowing them to legally live and work in the US typically offered to citizens of countries suffering from natural disasters or armed conflict.
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The huge turnout inspired him to join the caravan for at least part of its journey, although he had no plans to immigrate to the US. By the next morning, before the caravan had even departed, the number of migrants had swelled to more than 1,13 — making it among the largest in history.
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In an interview at Mexico Siglo XXI, Cheney said that he thinks Trump was "wrong" in 2015 to say that Mexico doesn't send "their best" to immigrate into the U.S. "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," Trump said in June of 85033 as he announced his bid for president.
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Glosser said that his family would not have survived World War II and the Holocaust if they did not have the opportunity to immigrate to the US as refugees back in the early 1900s, before the enactment of the 1924 Immigration Act that limited the entry of eastern and southern European immigrants.
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The Trump administration opposed a bill that would allow Kurds and other Syrian refugees to immigrate to the US more easily as Turkey's recent offensive in the war-torn country has left tens of thousands of civilians displaced, according to a leaked State Department memo first reported by the Daily Beast's Betsy Swan.
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As Vox's Dara Lind notes, "Trump's simplistic view of migration — in which people immigrate because their government is 'sending' them, and governments ought to try to keep people from leaving so they can 'make their countries great again' — doesn't fit Central American migration to the US," which is often driven by humanitarian or economic strife.
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This particularly affected the arts, namely classical Indian dance; government officials banned public performances as both "vulgar" and "Indian"; Pakistani students of the art could not obtain visas to study under gurus in India, and local teachers had to immigrate to other countries because classical dance became so unpopular they could not attract students.
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Sessions, addressing a roomful of attorneys and law enforcement officials in the lobby of the Southern District U.S. Attorney's office in lower Manhattan, also called for an end to the Diversity Visa program, the lottery program under which terror attack suspect Sayfullo Saipov was allowed to immigrate to the U.S. in 2010, from Uzbekistan.
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In another standout — "Parents," which won Ansari and Yang an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series — Dev and his friend Brian (Kelvin Yu) ask their fathers what it was like to immigrate from India and Taiwan to the US, prompting sharp flashbacks to their respective childhoods and difficult transitions to a new country.
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Congress, with the support of George W. Bush, then the (Republican) president, made another run at immigration reform in 2104, introducing a bill that would have enhanced border security, provided a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants and ended family reunification, leaving only the spouse and children of a green-card holder eligible to legally immigrate to America.
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European immigrants were the first and largest group to arrive, and subsequent policies made it much easier for people from European countries to come to the US. That said, a decent numbers of Canadian and Chinese immigrants also arrived early in this country's history, and over the years, different policies allowed greater numbers of Hispanics and Asians to immigrate.
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Michelle Lujan Grisham, Democrat of New Mexico and chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, attacked Trump's demands: The White House is using Dreamers to mask their underlying xenophobic, isolationist, and un-American policies, which will harm millions of immigrants living in the United States and millions of others who want to legally immigrate and contribute to our country.
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But it could come at the expense of legal migration, which President Trump has said he favors: Some agency staff members said closing overseas offices will make it more difficult and time-consuming to apply to immigrate from abroad, especially for refugees already in the United States who hope to bring other family members to join them.
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As the thinking on diversity in America has evolved from the metaphor of a melting pot to a mosaic, in which each piece keeps its integrity while enriching the whole, the concept of fusion has become archaic, replaced by a more organic understanding of how food changes when people immigrate and have to adapt to the ingredients on hand.
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American Street takes the shape of a coming-of-age story following Fabiola Toussaint, who leaves Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with her mother to immigrate to the US. But only Fabiola winds up making it to their final destination; her mom is detained, leaving Fabiola (who was born in the States) to establish a new life in Detroit.
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He met his wife Hend through family friends in Yemen and went to live with her, despite a worsening civil war in the country, while he sponsored her for a visa to immigrate to the US. The Alghazalis were originally supposed to interview for a visa in August 2017, before the current ban went into effect.
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Representatives from the Kushner family business, including one of Jared Kushner's sisters, pitched a deal to Chinese investors on Saturday: Invest $500,000 in our new real-estate project in New Jersey, and you can immigrate to the U.S. But while the deal might sound appealing to some, there's a clear Trump effect on the Kushner family business — and it's not all positive.
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But even then, the NumbersUSA scenario assumes that all the immigrants can afford to sponsor a family member to immigrate to the US. A US citizen (or green card holder seeking to bring an unmarried child or parent) has to prove to the government that they can provide financial support if their relative needs it, rather than relying on the government for aid.
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This violence is simply collateral damage in a greater war in which the violence isn't written in blood but ink, in which the white power is secured, and displacement is delayed, through a fundamental restructuring of the laws around which babies get born, which addictions get treated, which bodies are allowed to immigrate or seek asylum and whose voice and votes get counted.
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If you're already worried about President Donald Trump's immigration policy, this might all seem like evidence of "extreme vetting" — a policy promise Trump never clearly defined on the campaign trail, but which has often been assumed to mean some sort of overhaul of the procedures by which the US currently decides whom to let into the US to immigrate, work, or visit.
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While the program is relatively small and many Democrats agree it could use an overhaul, lawmakers in the Congressional Black Caucus are especially concerned about its targeting because 44% of the visas go to the African continent, with Europe representing only about one-third of the visas, and the program remains important to allowing Africans to immigrate to the US. Republican Rep.
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As President Donald Trump wages a vocal battle against illegal immigration, his administration has been working more quietly to cut down on legal pathways to immigrate to the U.S. On Tuesday, a new policy kicks in, allowing officers with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to outright deny any visa or green card application that is missing evidence or contains an error.
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After Mr. Trump used vulgar language to describe why he does not want people from certain countries in Africa and the Caribbean to immigrate to the United States, chances for a broad deal on immigration and spending began to unravel in Congress, increasing the likelihood of a government shutdown unless lawmakers reach a short-term spending agreement that puts off the big decisions.
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European immigrants were the first and largest group to arrive, and there were subsequent policies that made it much easier for people from those countries to come to the US. That said, a decent numbers of Canadian and Chinese immigrants also arrived early in this country's history, and over the years, different policies allowed greater numbers of Hispanics and Asians to immigrate.
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The administration has been laser-focused in its efforts to curtail immigration from the countries it perceives to be undesirable and to intimidate and terrorize immigrant communities in the U.S. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services removed language calling America a "nation of immigrants" from its mission statement to codify a newly harsh attitude towards legal immigrants, like those who immigrate through the Diversity Immigrant Program.
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ROBERT S. NUSSBAUMFORT LEE, N.J. To the Editor: The decision by the Supreme Court to allow parts of President Trump's travel ban to proceed smacks of the favoritism that we saw just before the start of World War II. Because my family and I, refugees from Hitler's Germany, had relatives living in New York City, we were allowed to immigrate in 1939 to the United States.
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The Trump administration is reportedly weighing new rules that could make it difficult for foreigners who have received public benefits from getting permanent residency in the U.S. The new rules being drafted by the Department of Homeland Security would let officials look at certain taxpayer-funded public benefits to decide if a potential immigrant should be eligible to immigrate to the U.S., Reuters reported.
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From his first proposal of a "Muslim ban" in December 2015 to his responses to terror attacks in fall 2017, he has taken the stance that the only way to prevent terrorists from entering the US is to block the paths that individual terrorists have taken to immigrate here in the past — shutting the door behind them and locking out tens of thousands of immigrants per year, or more.
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" - Edward Alsworth Ross, "The Old World in the New" 1896 "While the people who for 250 years have been migrating to America have continued to furnish large numbers of immigrants to the United States, other races of totally different race origin, with whom the English-speaking people have never hitherto been assimilated or brought in contact, have suddenly begun to immigrate to the United States in large numbers.
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Media reports surfaced on Thursday that Trump, frustrated about protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries, wondered aloud during a meeting with lawmakers why the U.S. allows people from "shithole countries" to enter, and suggested that more people from countries like Norway should immigrate to the U.S. The remarks drew widespread criticism from lawmakers, immigrant advocacy groups and foreign governments, including those of Haiti and Norway.
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While one could argue that in doing so, he has merely aestheticized crisis to the benefit of his own brand as a socially engaged contemporary artist, there is undoubtedly a deeper and more salient point at hand: Obsessed with humanitarianism, empathy, and concomitant desires for freedom and peace, Ai invites his viewers to immigrate from ignorance to understanding, using his art as a vehicle for action, awareness, and activism.
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Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Angus King (I-ME), and several other senators in the unofficial "Common Sense Coalition," would provide a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers who came to the US as children, fund the border wall, prevent green card holders from sponsoring their adult children to immigrate to the US, and codify the "enforcement priorities" for the Department of Homeland Security to not to focus on unauthorized immigrants living in the US without criminal records.
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As part of that goal, however, he would get rid of per-country visa caps, which have made it much more difficult for Chinese and Indian immigrants, in particular, to immigrate to the US. He would also nix the five-year waiting period for green card holders to obtain health insurance and food assistance, keep the costs associated with applying for citizenship low, and aid immigrant integration by promoting voter registration at naturalization ceremonies, for example.
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Sunday responded to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's calls for merit-based immigration by saying he would support a system like the one that allowed the president's grandfather to immigrate to America.
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As part of that goal, however, he would get rid of per-country visa caps, which have made it much more difficult for Chinese and Indian immigrants in particular to immigrate to the US. He would also nix the five-year waiting period for green card holders to obtain health insurance and food assistance, keep the costs associated with applying for citizenship low, and aid immigrant integration by, for example, promoting voter registration at naturalization ceremonies.
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So an immigrant with a wife and two children who wanted to sponsor his parents and four siblings to immigrate as soon as he became a citizen would have to be making $56,43 — around the median income in the US. And if his spouse were trying to do the same thing with her parents and four siblings, as in the NumbersUSA chart, they'd have to be making $83,000 — which would place them in the 66th percentile of US household income.
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At issue is the EB-5 immigrant investment program, which allows foreign investors to pump money into US projects that create jobs and then apply for visas to immigrate to the US. In a rare issue that unites lawmakers on the left and right, members of Congress have decried the program for essentially selling citizenship to wealthy foreigners -- many of whom are based in China -- although they acknowledge it does have value as a way to spur investment in the US and job growth.
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As a result, the Trump administration has instilled fear in gay people hoping to immigrate to the United States to escape countries that don't protect gay rights, transgender students at public schools who no longer have the protections outlined by the Obama administration, and HIV-positive LGBT Americans depending on the Affordable Care Act for medication who fear the loss of health care under the GOP's repeal and replacement legislation, said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT civil rights group.
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