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Debunking 3 myths behind 'chain migration' and 'low-skilled' immigrants

  • Written by Raquel Aldana, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity and Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization ceremony.AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

President Donald Trump has embraced the rhetoric of “chain migration” to spread the message that the United States is legally letting in too many of the wrong kind of immigrant.

That term, however, distorts the facts.

As a scholar on U.S....

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