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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Graylight · 51-55, F

And it worked for so many families. My family came over like that. Most did. There were sponsorships and guardians and affiliations. And it mattered because you weren't simply waiting on other immigrants - in those immigrant populations might be your children or mother or husband. We had ties to our homelands and rallied with each other to find a touchstone.

Fast forward a couple hundred years and it's no longer "Us" and the Old Country. It's "them" and "the ones who would take what I have." We got selfish and parsimonious. We began to feel like someone else's success somehow reduced us instead of bolstering society.

And we ignore it. This history, the hopes, the evolution. Everyone likes taking an exotic jaunt through Chinatown or Koreatown. They get the best selections at an ancient Jewish deli down the street. They pick up trinkets in the Thai corner of the city. But these were enclaves as much of persecution as they were of familiarity.

And now? Now it's every man for himself.