First thing first.As a sovereign country, the USA has every right to be bristling with prejudices as far as immigration policy is concerned.They should not be criticized for being harsh with the potential immigrants.However,family reunification programme has been the cornerstone for the past few decades.Ican think of three reasons as to why legal immigrants should be allowed to reunite with their families.
First,a permanent class of legal immigrants who are constantly told ,their labor is welcome,but their families are not, will never be full participants in the American dream.The Oath of Allegiance had been all about ensuring that new Americans don't have divided loyalties.Now that will be enshrined in law. Families are the bedrock of American life.Recent poll shows that young Americans identified broken families,not Iraq or global warming as their greatest fear.What message does the White House send out about family value when its action undercuts its sermon ? Dr.David Ho,the Time magazine's man of the year in 1996, pioneered the use of protease inhibitors to treat HIV-infected patients.Thousands and thousands of Americans now have new lease on life,thanks to him.He came to the USA at the age of 12 from Taiwan to reunite with his father. My point is that the legal and the illegal immigrants should not be thrown into the same pot to swim or sink. KJD On 7/7/07, umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kamal-da, When Immigration began 500 years back in USA then there was no family reunification programs -- those who had guts and desire for adventure sailed across the oceans and never saw their families again. Some prisoners had to be sent to Australia since no one in thier right minds wanted to go to Australia -- some bribed and escaped and came back to Britain -- read Chalres Dicken's Great Expectations. So why this pillar of immigration. Immigration means travel to a new place -- not bringing all your hometown and family and friends with you. Does it? Umesh *kamal deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: Do you know that the White House is floating a new immigration proposal,which is designed to tear down another pillar of immigration policy ----family reunification? It appears that sibling and adult children of American citizen are just out of luck,turned by a stroke of the pen from family members into strangers in the eye of law.Instead of blood-ties,people will be judged by a point system in which knowledge of English and education would be given importance rather than family value. KJD _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ ------------------------------ Do not compromise. Get unlimited storage and first rate spam protection with Yahoo! Mail<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mailuk/taglines/gmail/no_compromise/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48525/*http://uk.mail.yahoo.com> .
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