The Importance Of Family Reunification In The United States

Immigration is the oxygen to America’s lungs, without it the nation will die. Yet, the American government has been holding its breath for years. For it has established laws that are so complicated it requires a lawyer to fight through. These laws are backing up the system and causing undo turmoil on those trying to legally enter the country. Improvements must be made or America will soon suffocate under the restraint of its own laws. Family unification is a process in which a U.S. permanent resident, green card holder, or citizen of the United States can sponsor family members to immigrate to America. Originally it only applied to minor children and spouses, but now it has been extended to parents, unmarried adult children, married adult children, and siblings. The government has also far extended the amount of immigrants able to come through family reunification, about 480,000 per year, that it …show more content…
Seasonal jobs, such as farming, are in need of workers, but companies are not receiving the amount they need. With the inability to hire willing Americans and legal immigrants so difficult to come by, companies are making impossible choices. They are forced to lose product, therefore having to raise the price of merchandise, or hire illegal immigrants, thereby breaking the law. Work based immigration is paramount to the system and must be the largest sum of visas available. Those who seek jobs in America should be able to find them through the companies who need them. The companies who are unable to find workers already in America should be able to proceed through uncomplicated paperwork to obtain enough visas to supply them. It would be up to the company to fill out the necessary paperwork until the worker is no longer needed. At the point of the worker’s termination the worker has two choices to either find another job, which he has six months, without government aid to accomplish, or return