Opinion | Julia Brookins: Trump's immigration plan endangers America's ability to integrate foreigners. - NBCNewsThink
Miyoung Lee holds her son, Nate, as they take part in a United States naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library on July 2, 2014.Julia Brookins, special projects coordinator at the American Historical AssociationThursday proposed an eye-catching but ultimately short-sighted approach to immigration: the notion that we should strongly favor highly educated, highly skilled visa-seekers over those with family ties to people in the United States.
Are we setting ourselves up to host a set of people who see themselves as global winners, looking to negotiate the best residency deal for themselves without emotional connections to us or intellectual regard for our ideals? So what are Trump and those who oppose family-based immigration missing? They are overlooking two critical ways that giving visas to relatives of immigrants facilitates integration: the practical work involved, and the support it provides for our civic life. Coming to the country via family connections is not unfair or crooked, as some of those who oppose the practice today claim.
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