How Would Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Have Affected His Own Team? I traced their family histories. Their ancestors wouldn’t have been welcome.
Getty POLITICS How Would Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Have Affected His Own Team? I traced their family histories. Their ancestors wouldn’t have been welcome. By JENNIFER MENDELSOHN January 18, 2018 After President Donald Trump called it a “total disaster, which threatens our security and our economy and provides a gateway for terrorism” at a White House meeting in early January, “chain migration” quickly became the buzzword du jour for anti-immigration voices. But chain migration, a process also known as “family reunification” that allows a legal immigrant to bring his family members to the United States—spouses and minor children when he has a green card, and parents and siblings after he becomes a citizen—is nothing new. In fact, it’s how the families of some of the most prominent anti-immigration voices in Trump’s circle—and the president himself—came to the United States. These ahistorical warnings about the evils of chain migratio...
