For the first time, the White House said, the federal government has counted the green cards issued between 2005 and 2015 to migrants admitted through family preference, or as immediate relatives of migrants already admitted into the country in perhaps the fullest portrait of “chain migration” ever developed. “For years, we've known that large numbers of immigrants have been coming based on petitions from previous immigrants,” U.S. “But this is the first time we really kind of see the whole scope of the problem. They show that American immigration skews almost entirely towards family-based admissions,” said a White House official who briefed Fox News on the data. President Trump has urged congressional Democrats to address chain migration in any compromise on the so-called “Dreamers” immigrants brought here as children who will face deportation in March if a deal on their disposition is not reached.

Source: Fox News December 01, 2017 00:03 UTC