[Assam] Immigration policy

Sun Jul 8 00:26:17 PDT 2007

So you mean that just becos one person did well and created HIV medicie so millions should be allowed in - whereas those adventurous and sharp guys who take the risk on their own should not be??

50% of American marriages end in divorces so I do not see their fear of broken families -- divorce breaks up a family does it not?

Third,  if a person is a citizen of USA  after coming here - I think s/he is entitld to bring along his/her spouse and underage children. It is easier to go from USA to India (22 hours) than it was for me to go from Delhi to Chennai (38 hours - by train). Most people in India never travel by plane - so have greater difficulty in meeting family -say an Assamese  working in Bangalore - (40 hours atleast by train)  than visiting India from USA.

Even within the country people have to move elsewhere (in India ) to look for work --so there is no cure for that. Is there?  If one wants to meet family -- take some time off from work and visit them!!

Umesh

kamal deka <kjit.deka at gmail.com> wrote: 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.I can 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 <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> 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 <kjit.deka at gmail.com> 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

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