Reply #27: He'd be a good President [View All]

[Quequeg]

There are only 13 in the Senate who have a higher score according to Taxpayer.net (which is an organization dedicated to reducing wasteful government spending.)
http://www.capwiz.com/taxpayer/scorecard/?chamber=S&session=1082&image.x=10&image.y=10

He's against "free trade" and the WTO, but also against the exploitation that comes from illegal immigration and h-1b visas.

He's #5 on the work visas:
http://grades.betterimmigration.com/view_list.php3?District=ND&Category=5&Status=Career&Flag=7&VIPID=506

He's #2 among all Senate Democrats on the issue of Chain Migration:
http://grades.betterimmigration.com/view_list.php3?District=ND&Category=2&Status=Career&Flag=10&VIPID=506

Here's a discussion of Chain Migration:
http://grades.betterimmigration.com/issues.php3?District=ND&VIPID=506&Category=2&Status=Career
Chain Migration refers to the endless and often-snowballing chains of foreign nationals who are allowed to immigrate because previous immigrants can send for ADULT relatives.

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

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

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

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

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