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Sixteen Year-Old Male Escapes From War-Torn Land to U.S. Using "Chain-Migration."

Boy gets to come to U.S. because of older sister already being present. Once given a green card he goes back overseas and return with his sweeheart.

Now what's going to happen when they have kids? Those kids will become U.S. citizens by birth. And their kids will have kids, who will also becomes U.S. citizens by birth.

Elizabeth Christ and Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump's grandparents, both immigrated to America from a part of Germany with a troubled history. Wikimedia Commons

In 1885, when Friedrich immigrated, he joined his sister Katherine, who had immigrated to New York a year earlier. "Chain-migration", which Donald Trump has denounced, is what enabled his family to be here in the first place.

From 2019:

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
My grandparents moved here around 1915 so my father was born here in the USA in 1920. A couple of years after his birth Great grandfather told them to come back and so they did and so my father grew up in what is now the Czech republic.

He was unfortunate to have been sent to prison camp in WWII. Yet he eventually escaped to Italy near the end of the war. Yet he managed to come back here back to where he was born in Iowa.